Structural
Rhetorical Terms
Rhetorical Terms
The close repetition of the initial consonant sounds in accented syllables or important words.
What is alliteration?
In 12 Angry Men, the number of jurors in the jury room and the foreman.
What is 12?
An indirect reference to something.
What is an allusion?
The max score on the AP Lang Exam.
What is five?
Latin for "against the man."
Describes when a writer attacks his or her opponent instead of their arguments.
What is ad homonym?
The use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose which correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc.
What is parallelism?
The final vote in the jury room.
What is 11-1, not guilty?
What is an archetype?
The number of essays on the AP English Language Exam.
What is three?
When a narrative or description that has a second meaning.
What is allegory?
an arrangement of repeated thoughts, concepts of words in the pattern of X Y Y X; e.g. 'Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.'
What is chiasmus?
The flower girl in Pygmalion.
Who is Eliza Doolittle?
When the reader is aware of an inconsistency between a character's perception of a situation and the truth.
What is dramatic irony?
The date of the AP Lang exam.
What is on Tuesday, May 9th?
A comparison between two unlike things that continue throughout a series of sentences in a paraphraph or lines in the poem.
What is an extended metaphor?
A sentence consisting of three or more independent clauses joined by conjunctions.
What is a freight-train sentence?
The number of states that Mr. Murphy has lived in.
What is 11?
A quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the theme.
What is an epigraph?
The number of multiple choice questions on the AP English Language Exam.
What is 45?
When a question is asked and immediately answered.
What is hypophora?
A sentence that places the main idea or central complete thought at the end of the sentence.
What is a periodic sentence?
The character that Neal played in Dead Poet's Society.
What is Puck?
A sudden reversal of fortune or change in circumstance.
What is peripeteia?
The number of possible points on a single essay.
What is six?
An argument in which one premise is not explicitly stated.
What is an enthymeme?