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A.P Language
Rhetorical Elements and Terms #1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mood . | What the author wants you to feel |
| Tone . | How the author feels |
| Absolute . | Extremes |
| Alliteration . | Occurrence of the same letter or sound in neighboring words at the BEGINNING of a sentence |
| Allusion . | An implied or indirect reference |
| Analogy . | Comparison of 2 things |
| Anaphora . | repetition of words or phrases in a group of sentences, clauses, or poetic lines. |
| Anecdote . | A short true story |
| Antagonist . | A character who works against protagonist |
| Antithesis . | The direct opposite |
| Appeal to ethos . | Trust |
| Appeal to logos . | Statistics |
| Appeal to specific emotion . | Pathos |
| Appeal to religion . | Appeals to religion |
| Asyndeton . | Absence of a conjunction |
| Chaismus . | Two part sentence/phrase where one is repeated in reverse order |
| Colloquialism . | Slang |
| Connotation . | Feeling a word gives you |
| Constraint . | Invokes limit |
| Declarative Sentence . | Sentence that makes a statement |
| Denotation . | The literal verbal meaning |
| Denouement .fddddg | The end |
| Dialect . | A particular language |