AP Language Terms and "On Compassion" Examples

what is Parallelism

• Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other

• Sentence structure; the arrangement of phrases and clauses

• a spoken or written representation or account of a person, object, or event

• writing that tells a story

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

what is Syntax

• a spoken or written representation or account of a person, object, or event

• Sentence structure; the arrangement of phrases and clauses

• writing that tells a story

• A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1

what is Description

• writing that tells a story

• A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed

• A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event.

• a representation or account of a person, object, or event using details

Tags

CCSS.W.9-10.2

What is narration

• a brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event

• writing that tells a story

• Sentence structure

• a representation or account of a person, object, or event with details

Tags

CCSS.W.9-10.3

what is an Anecdote

• a statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed

• A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event.

• writing style including devices to achieve an effect

• A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

repetitive sentence structure that adds intensity and builds rhythm

• hyperbole

• paradox

• metaphor

• parallelism

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What rhetorical device is used in: "We are the people in a quandary about the present. We are the people in search of our future. We are the people in search of a national community. We are the people."

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• parallelism

• rhetorical question

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What rhetorical device is used in: "We will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together"

• simile

• parallelism

• hyperbole

• rhetorical question

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1A

What type of rhetorical device is used in: . "What point in the anti-slavery creed would you have me argue? On what branch of the subject do the people of this country need light?"

• rhetorical question

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• parallelism

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

uses a short story or life experience as an example to support a point.

• anaphora

• anecdote

• parallelism

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D