AP LANG Terms: Group 1

An indirect reference to something (usually a literary text, although it can be other things commonly know, such as plays, songs, historical events) with which the reader is supposed to be familiar.

• allusion

• diction

• jargon

• rhetoric

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

^{Which word(s) is an example of dialect?}
The axe got so heavy I could hardly swing it. My breath got harder and harder to breathe. An hour before sundown, I was worn down to a nub.

• The axe got so heavy
• My breath got harder
• An hour before sundown
• worn down to a nub

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CCSS.L.5.3B

Break a leg when you go on stage.

• idiom

• pun

• hyperbole

• allusion

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Don't be a Scrooge!

• personification

• idiom

• pun

• allusion

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

“It's a piece of cake.”

• hyperbole

• idiom

• allusion

• simile

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Which sentence is an example of asyndeton?

• You can eat your cake with a spoon or fork.

• My dog enjoys being bathed but hates getting his nails trimmed.

• My dinner is delicious, warm, ready to eat.

• My brother refuses to eat peas, nor will he touch carrots.

What is polysyndeton?

• When conjunctions are used repeatedly in quick succession

• When no conjuctions are used

• When a sentence uses a lot of punctuation

• A play on words

Which sentence is an example of polysyndeton?

• I ate chicken, rice, beans, potatoes.

• I ate chicken and rice and beans and potatoes.

• I ate like a pig.

• I ate 4 things for dinner.

The following is an example of a ________________: To raise a happy, healthy, and hopeful child, it takes a family; it takes teachers; it takes clergy; it takes businesspeople; it takes community leaders..."

• parallelism
• chiasmus
• apostrophe
• anaphora

A syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series, usually producing more rapid prose.  Julius Caesar, "I came, I saw, I conquered."

• asyndeton
• repetition
• polysyndeton
• imperative sentence