AP Literature
AP Language
Rhetorical Devices
Figurative Language
Definitions
100

A character who only has one main character trait

What is a static character?

100

The art of using language to persuade 

What is rhetoric?

100

Using the same verb tense or structure in your sentences. For example, "This government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the Earth"

What is parallel structure?

100

The literary device used in this poem to describe the speaker's attitude toward dying. 

"If we must die, let it not be like hogs

Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot"

What is simile?

100

The writer's attitude toward a subject

What is tone?

200

The literary device used when the audience watches Romeo kill himself because he mistakenly believes that Juliet is dead

What is dramatic irony?

200

The part of the body paragraph where you add in quotes from the text 

What is evidence?

200

A question whose answer is implied and doesn't actually have to be stated

What is a Rhetorical Question?

200

The device used in this poem: 

For a full week, the blackberries would ripen.

At first, just one, a glossy purple clot

Among others, red, green, hard as a knot.

You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet

What is imagery?

200

The acronym we use to find tone

What is DIDLS?

300

A genre of novel that tells the true story of a particular time period in the author's life

What is a memoir?

300

The structure of a body paragraph

What is Claim, Evidence, and Explain?

300

The rhetorical appeal used here: “I was like you. I didn’t have much money. I struggled to pay the rent. Then I studied the stock market. I was determined to make some money. Sometimes I won, sometimes I lost. But I kept trying. And eventually, I devised the system that you will learn today. You will finally be rich 

What is ethos?

300

The device used in this Robert Frost Poem 

"Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay. "

What is allusion?

300

Analyzing sentence structure

What is syntax?

400

A point of view in which the narrator tells the story from outside of the main character's own head. They use pronouns like "he" and "she"

What is 3rd person POV?

400

The most important section of a Rhetorical Analysis Essay

What is the explanation?

400
Bringing two contrasting ideas or things together in order to highlight their differences

What is juxtaposition?

400

The literary device used in this poem to describe death: 

"Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. 

What is metaphor?

400

The best number to group words or sentence phrases in writing?

What is three?

500

A genre in which the protagonist comes of age or experiences a loss of innocence. 

What is a bildungsroman?
500

This is the better thesis of these two options:

1. Rowling’s imagery and dark word choice help establish a morose tone, which reveals the depth of Harry’s grief over his parents as he weeps by their grave.


2. Rowling's juxtaposition and details help create a morose atmosphere, which helps the reader understand what Harry is feeling.

What is thesis number 1?

500
Intentionally removing conjunctions for pacing and stylistic effect. For example: "Here, there, everywhere"

What is Asyndeton?

500

Using gentler language to soften the blow of a message or word

What is euphemism?

500
The term for when someone begins their sentences with repeating words or phrases

What is anaphora?

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