Rhetorical devices for AP Language and Composition
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| show | a narrative in which the characters, behavior, and even the setting demonstrate multiple levels of meaning and significance
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| Alliteration | show 🗑
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| show | a literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference
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| Anaphora | show 🗑
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| Antithesis | show 🗑
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| show | a concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief.
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| show | the act of addressing some inanimate abstraction or person that is not physically present: it often helps the speaker to be able to express his or her thoughts aloud.
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| Assonance | show 🗑
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| show | a syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series
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| Attitude | show 🗑
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| Begging the question | show 🗑
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| show | a figure of speech and generally a syntactical structure wherein the order of the terms on the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in the second.
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| Claim | show 🗑
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| Colloquial | show 🗑
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| Conceit | show 🗑
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| show | the implied, suggested, or underlying meaning of a word or phrase. It is the opposite of denotation, which is the "dictionary definition" of the word
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| Consonance | show 🗑
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| Convention | show 🗑
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| show | the method of argument in which specific statements and conclusions are drawn from general principles; movement from general to the specific, in contrast to inductive reasoning (induction).
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| Diction | show 🗑
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| show | writing or speech is didactic when it has an instructive purpose or a lesson
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| show | a poem or prose work the laments, or meditates upon the death, a person or persons. Sometimes an elegy will end with words of consolation.
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| show | in rhetoric, the repetition of a phrase at the END of successive sentences.
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| Epitaph | show 🗑
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| Ethos | show 🗑
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| Euphemism | show 🗑
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| show | writing that explains its own meaning or purpose
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| show | a series of comparisons within a piece of writing. If they consistently involve one concept, this is also known as a conceit.
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| Homily | show 🗑
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| show | a type of sentence that gives instructions, advice, or commands
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| Flashback | show 🗑
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| show | a type or class of literature
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| show | overstatement characterised by exaggerated language, usually to make a point or draw attention.
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| Inductive reasoning (induction) | show 🗑
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| show | a conclusion or proposition arrived at by considering facts, observations, or some other specific data.
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| Isocolon | show 🗑
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| show | specialized or technical language of a trade, profession, or similar group
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| Juxtaposition | show 🗑
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| show | a figure of speech the emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement
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| Loose sentence | show 🗑
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| Metonymy | show 🗑
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| Mode of discourse | show 🗑
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| Mood | show 🗑
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| Narrative | show 🗑
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| Oxymoron | show 🗑
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| show | a statement that seems contradictory but is probably true
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| show | the use of similar forms in writing for nouns, verbs, phrases, or thoughts
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| Pathos | show 🗑
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| show | a long sentence in which the main clause is not completed until the end
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| Realism | show 🗑
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| Rebuttal/refutation | show 🗑
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| Rhetoric | show 🗑
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| show | a question that is a simply for the sake of stylistic effect and is not expected to be answered
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| Sarcasm | show 🗑
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| show | a literary work that holds up human failings to ridicule and censure
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| Simile | show 🗑
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| Style | show 🗑
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| Symbolism | show 🗑
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| Synecdoche | show 🗑
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| Syntax | show 🗑
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| show | the central or dominant idea or focus of a work; the statement a passage makes about its subject.
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| Tone | show 🗑
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| show | a grammatically correct construction in which a word, usually a verb or adjective, is applied to two or more nouns without being repeated.
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| Logos | show 🗑
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