Rhetorical Devices
Words which are inaccurate if interpreted literally, but are used to describe. Similes and metaphors are common forms.
What is Figurative Language?
The three main types of appeals (The Greek Please)
What are Ethos, Pathos, and Logos?
An example of this device is... "Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune--without the words, And never stops at all."
What is metaphor?
People do not have feathers, dude.
This rhetorical device involves an expression that has unusual meaning. ex: To kick the bucket, to break a leg...
What is an Idiom?
The amount of time given for the Synthesis Prompt.
What is 60 minutes?
This rhetorical device is a subtype of parallelism. It is defined as the exact repetition of words at the beginning of phrases. ex: The I Have a Dream speech.
What is Anaphora?
The use of Statistics would be this appeal.
What is Logos?
A question asked for an effect, and not actually requiring an answer.
What is a Rhetorical Question?
The two types of Rhetorical Devices that require a descriptor word.
What are Diction and Tone?
The first section of the AP test.
What is Multiple Choice?
A reference to a Historic Person, Place, Event, or Idea.
What is Allusion?
Not emotion, and not logic.
What is Ethos?
This device refers to the way an author chooses to join word into phrases and sentences.
What is Syntax?
This rhetorical device involves the deliberate exaggeration of a situation. ex: He ate everything in the house.
What is Hyperbole?
The 2024 AP test is on this day.
What is May 14?
Mrs. O'Neill's favorite Rhetorical Device.
What is Juxtaposition?
When Obama builds credibility in a speech, he is appealing to this.
What is Ethos?
The spark that ignited a speaker?
What is Exigence?
An acknowledgement that others may disagree with your argument.
What is a concession?
This part of the test includes being given ONE selection of text to analyze.
What is Rhetorical Analysis?
A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity.
What is Paradox?
Examples of this are nostalgic, melancholy, and ecstatic.
What is Pathos?
A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule.
What is Satire?
Deliberately suggesting two or more different, and sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work. An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way- - this is done on purpose by the author, when it is not done on purpose, it is vagueness, and detracts from the work. Acknowledging this leads to sophistication.
What is ambiguity?
The percent of the AP Language Score that comes from Multiple Choice.
What is 45%?