AP Language Rhetorical Devices, Week 2

Denotation is a word's ____________.

• Literal, dictionary definition

• Emotional meaning

• synonym

• antonym

Connotation is a word's ___________.

• synonym

• emotional meaning

• antonym

• Literal, dictionary definition.

I recognized the familiar smell of my roommate's cooking. If you change the word smell to stench, the word now has a ____________ connotation.

• positive

• negative

Choose the word with the positive connotation.
chuckle--snicker

• chuckle

• snicker

Which of the following is an extended metaphor?

• ...Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest...

  Geo. Washington.

• Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything. -Alexander Hamilton

• 3+6=9 but so does 4+5. The way you do things is not always the only way to do them. Respect others ways of thinking. -Anonymous

• Make your life a masterpiece; Imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do. -Brian Tracy

What genre of writing provides information on a topic?

• biography

• autobiography

• persuasive writing

• informational writing

The pencil danced across the page is an example of what figurative language?

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Simile

figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated.

• metonymy

• synecdoche

• parallelism

• anaphora

The White House will be announcing the decision around noon today.

• metonymy

• synecdoche

• anaphora

• alliteration

a figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated.

• Malapropism

• Metaphor

• Metonymy

• Mood