AP English Language and Composition

Rhetorical Strategies

100

A simile

What is a comparison of two unlike things?

200

Repetition

By bringin up words or ideas on multiple occasions, authors emphasize the importance of these ideas.

300

Personification

What is the use of human characteristics to describe animals, objects, or ideas?

400

Personification

What is the literary device that uses human characteristics to describe animals, objects, or ideas?

500

Parallelism

What is the literary device that uses similar grammatical structures or word order in two or more sentences, clauses, or phrases to suggest a comparision or contrast between them?

Rhetorical Strategies

100

Paradox

What is a statement that seems absurd or even contradictory but that often expresses a deeper truth?

200

Metaphor

What is a comparison of unlike things without the use of like or as?

300

Juxtaposition

What is the technique of placing unexpected combinations of words or ideas side by side?

400

Oxymoron

What is the association of two contradictory terms?

500

Hyperbole

What is excessive overstatement or conscious exaggeration of fact?

Rhetorical Strategies

100

Onomatopoeia

What is the use of words that sound like the thing or action they refer to?

200

Anthithesis

What is the contrasting of ideas by the use of parallel structure in phrases or clauses?

300

Rhetorical Question

What is a question that is asked not to elicit a response but to call attention to or assert something?

400

Anaphora

What is the repeated use of a word or phase at the start of successive phrases or sentences for effect?

500

Symbol

What is a concrete object that is made to represent something abstract?