Mrs. Wendy Scruggs's AP Rhetorical Devices Terms
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| Hamartia(Tragic Flaw) in the context of tragedy, a fatal flaw or error that brings about the downfall of someone of a high status. | show 🗑
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| show | In Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, the nightmares Lockwood has the night he sleeps in Catherine's bed prefigure later events in the novel.
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| Expert Opinion The citation of accredited authorities in support of an argument | show 🗑
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| show | Saying "ethnic cleansing" instead of "genocide".
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| show | She, she it was who broke my heart.
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| Epithet An adjective or phrase that describes a prominent or distinguishing feature of a person or thing. | show 🗑
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| Emblem A concrete object that represents something abstract; unlike a symbol it has a fixed meaning and does not change over time. | show 🗑
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| Ellipsis A figure of speech in which a word or short phrase is omitted but easily understood from the context. | show 🗑
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| show | In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, Oedipus vows to discover his father's murderer, not knowing, as the audience does, that he himself is the murderer.
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| show | In the prime of his life, he was cut down.
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| show | Chicken is supposed to be healthy. This sandwich contains chicken, so it is probably healthy.
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| show | Turn over a new leaf.
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| Chiasmus Two phrases in which the syntax is the same but the placement of words is reversed. | show 🗑
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| show | The works of Homer, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Bronte, and other great writers.
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| show | James Boswell's life of Samuel Johnson. Plato's The Death of Socrates. George Kent's A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks.
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| show | Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Monica Ali's Brick. J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
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| Auxesis Arranging words or clauses in a sequence of increasing force. | show 🗑
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| show | Richard Wright's Black Boy. Helen Keller's The Story of My Life. Anne Frank's The Diary of a young Girl.
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| show | Children's television programs should not run advertisements are contributions to an increase in sugar consumption and diabetes among children
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| Argument by definition Form of argument in which the writers defines a term by placing it in a particular category, thereby claiming that what is true for the whole category is true for the particular term. | show 🗑
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| show | Congress was right to lower the voting from twenty-one to eighteen, because if you are old enough to join the army and fight in a war, then you are old enough to vote.
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| Archetype A theme, motif, symbol, or character that holds a familiar and fixed place in a cultures consciousness. | show 🗑
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| Appeal to the probable or likely A form of argument in which a claim is supported by reference to what seems mot plausible or what one would expect in a given situation. Such appeals are usually made when more solid or factual evidence is unavailable. | show 🗑
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| show | Walt Whitman's poem "O Captain, My Captain" was written upon the death of Abraham Lincoln
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| show | Why i oughtta.....
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