Rhetorical strategy
Rhetorical Strategies 2
SAT Words
SAT Words 2
Lit
100
Giving non-human beings, human traits or capabilities
What is personification
100
The author's attitude toward the subject matter
What is tone
100
Not friendly (adjective)
What is inimical
100
Sharp, or harsh. Also the name of an angle (adjective)
What is acute
100
Sewall' favorite words
What is Divergent/Illuminates.
200
Repetition at the end.
What is epistrophe
200
Repetition at the beginning.
What is anaphora
200
Dissenting with the majority opinion (adjective)
What is divisive.
200
Philosophy of pleasure and self indulgence (noun)
What is hedonism
200
How to get a 9 on an essay
What is Divergent
300
Understatement
What is litotes
300
When one kind of sensory stimulus evokes another.
What is synesthasia
300
A formal, or authoritative proclamation (noun)
What is an Edict
300
Something that is fleeting or short-lived (adjective)
What is ephemeral
300
When will the tree stumps arrive?
What is never because they're heavy
400
device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning.
What is allegory
400
When events turn out opposite of what is expected
What is situational irony.
400
Brief and to the point (adjective)
What is Laconic
400
a type of photograph, displaying the normal life of the subject, taken without knowledge (adjective)
What is candid
400
Person who can probably pass the AP exam if their handwriting gets better
Who is Brian
500
the latter part of a sentence, phrase, or larger discourse is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part.
What is Paraprosdokian
500
dwelling on a point by repeating it several times in different words.
What is commoratio
500
Something that occurred before the biblical flood (adjective)
What is Antediluvian
500
Meaning pleasing to the ear, a mesh between intense pleasure and having letter sounds. (Adjective)
What is euphonic
500
The AP Lang class that is better
What is 4th period