AP English 11 Rhethoric Terms

• the repitition of a word/phrase at the beginning of sucessive causes
• ex. We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end.

• a statement/preposition that, despite sound reasoning from acceptible source, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless/self-contradictionary
• ex. You can save money by spending it.

• an act of placing close togehter for comparision and contrast
• ex. playing the song "What a Wonder full World" while scenes of war and violence are going on

• the occurence of the same letter at the beginning of adjacent words
• ex. Dewdrops Dancing Down Daisies

• the formation of a word from a sound assiociated with what is named
• ex. Clink, clank, clunk, clatterCrash, bang, beep, buzzRing, rip, roar, retch

• a spoken or written account of connective events
• ex. The barber was cutting our hair, and our eyes were closed--as they are so likely to be. .

• an exchange of diverging/opposite views
• ex. debate

• a comprehensive description and explaination of an idea or theory
• ex. a word definition or speeches

a spoken/written description of a person/object/event

• the subtitiution of the name of an attribute for that of the thing meant
• ex. crown for royalty

• the placing of a sentence or one of its parts against another to which it is opposed to form a balanced contrast of ideas
• ex. Give me liberty or give me death.

a commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument about the person buried at that site.

a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.

• an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally
• ex. to wait an eternity

• to state or represent less strongly or strikingly than the facts would bear out
• ex. Saying "We've had a little rain," when the neighborhood is flooded.

• a digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea
• ex. “O Death, where is thy sting?”

• a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special
• ex. ten sail for ten ships

• a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared
• ex. “she is like a rose.”

• the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions
• ex. the lamp post seemed wry

• the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt.
• ex. “To pass away” is a euphemism for “to die.”

• Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.
• ex. She tried to make her pastry fluffy, sweet, and delicate.

• the omission of one or more words, which must be supplied by the listener or reader
• ex. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends