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100
A mild or less negative usage for a harsh or blunt term
What is a euphemism?
100
A struggle between opposing forces
What is a conflict?
100
The suggested or implied meaning of a word
What is connotation?
100
A reference to a person, place, or event meant to create an effect or enhance the meaning of an idea
What is an allusion?
100
The language of a work and its style; words, often highly emotional, used to convince or sway an audience.
What is rhetoric?
200
The choice of words in oral or written discourse
What is diction?
200
A mode of expression in which the intended meaning is the opposite of what is stated, often implying ridicule or light sarcasm; a state of affairs or events that is the reverse of what might have been expected
What is irony?
200
The dictionary definition of a word
What is denotation?
200
A story consisting of events from which a moral or spiritual truth may be derived
What is a parable?
200
The number of essays you will write on the AP exam
What is 3?
300
The manner in which an author uses and arranges words, shapes ideas, forms sentences, and creates a strucutre to convey ideas
What is style?
300
A literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts
What is juxtaposition?
300
A series of comparisons between two unlike objects
What is an extended metaphor?
300
A word to which a pronoun refers
What is antecedent?
300
The amount of time you will have to answer ~55 multiple choice questions on 4-5 different complex passages.
What is 60 minutes?
400
A vagueness of meaning; a conscious lack of clarity meant to evoke multiple meanings or interpretations
What is ambiguity?
400
A statement that contradicts itself and still seems true somehow
What is a paradox?
400
A highly specific, particular, often real, actual, or tangible detail
What is concrete?
400
A form of verse or prose 9both fiction and nonfiction) that tells a story and may use any number of storytelling devices.
What is narrative?
400
In _____ , the author conveys _____ through the use of ____ and _____ in order to _____.
What is a template for a rhetorical analysis thesis?
500
A phrase, idea, or event that through repetition serves to unify or convey a themein an essay or other discourse
What is a motif?
500
A rhetorical opposition or contast of ideas by means of a grammatical arrangement of words, clauses, or sentences, as in the following: "They promised freedom but provided slavery." "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
What is antithesis?
500
Dealing with or tending to deal with a subject apart from a particular or specific instance
What is abstract?
500
Any discourse that is not poetry
What is prose?
500
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