AP Lang Terms

Figure of speech where author/speaker addresses an object, person or idea that is not present.

• Allegory
• Apostrophe
• Aphorism
• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

More agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept.

• Aphorism
• Euphemism
• Litotes
• Chiasmus

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

• aphorism
• oxymoron
• fallacy
• metonomy

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Two items, ideas, characters, etc placed side by side for comparison. Sometimes intentional, Sometimes Not.

• Oxymoron
• Juxtaposition
• Allegory
• Litotes

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

One of the devices of repetition, in which the same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences.

• Apostrophe
• Anaphora
• Aphorism
• Ambiguity

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The meaning of a word, phrase, or sentence is uncertain. There could be more than one meaning

• Fallacy
• Ambiguity
• Didactic
• Chiasmus

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to literal meaning

• Hypophora
• Metonomy
• Allegory
• Litotes

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Figure of balance in which two contrasting ideas are intentionally juxtaposed; usually through parallel structure

• Antithesis
• Colloqualism
• Euphemism
• Juxtaposition

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Intending to teach, especially in a highly moral manner; preachy

• Didactic
• Pendantic
• Hypophora
• Oxymoron

The second half of a phrase reverses the order of the first half, to concentrate on the main point.

• Juxtaposition
• Colloqualism
• Hypophora
• Chiasmus

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5