Rhetoric Devices and Terms commonly seen on the AP English Language Exam
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| allusion | show 🗑
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| show | The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression
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| analogy | show 🗑
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| anaphora | show 🗑
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| show | The direct or exact opposite
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| show | The direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction, especially as a digression in the course of a speech or composition
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| show | The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue
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| detail | show 🗑
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| show | Choice and use of words in speech or writing
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| show | The disposition, character, or fundamental values peculiar to a specific person, people, culture, or movement
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| show | The act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive
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| show | An expression that uses language in a nonliteral way, such as a metaphor or synedoche, or in a structured or unusual way, such as anaphora or chiasmus, or that employs sounds, such as alliteration or assonance, to achieve a rhetorical effect.
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| show | A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect
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| imagery | show 🗑
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| show | logic, reasoning
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| metaphor | show 🗑
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| show | Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood
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| organization | show 🗑
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| oxymoron | show 🗑
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| paradox | show 🗑
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| show | quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow);
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| show | a way of regarding situations or topics
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| point of view | show 🗑
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| repetition | show 🗑
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| rhetorical question | show 🗑
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| show | the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
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| simile | show 🗑
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| show | That part of grammar which treats of the construction of sentences; the due arrangement of words in sentences in their necessary relations, according to established usage in any language
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| tone | show 🗑
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| understatement | show 🗑
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| Ad hominem | show 🗑
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| show | A story, fictional or nonfictional, in which characters, things, and events represent qualities or concepts; they reveal an abstract truth
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| show | A brief recounting of a relevant episode; usually inject humor or develop a point
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| show | Commas used with no conjunction
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| Begging the question | show 🗑
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| show | used to describe fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking
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| show | Sentence structure which leaves out something in the second half.
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| show | When a writer uses the same term in two different senses in an argument
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| Inversion | show 🗑
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| show | sentence consisting of three or more very short independent clauses joined by conjunction
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| show | When on statement isn't logically connected to another
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| Polysyndeton | show 🗑
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| Post hoc, ergo propter hoc | show 🗑
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| Red herring | show 🗑
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| show | A writer oftens adopts a fictional voice (or mask) to tell a story.
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| show | A work that reveals a critcial attitude toward some element of human behavior by portraying it in an extreme way. Satire targets groups rather than individuals
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| Straw Man | show 🗑
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| show | Sentence consisting of three parts of equal importance and length, usually three independent clauses
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| Syntactic Permutation | show 🗑
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| show | A terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle. Can be a memorable summation of the author's point.
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| Connotation | show 🗑
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| show | the strict literal meaning ; devoid of any emotion , attitude or color
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| syllogism | show 🗑
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