AP Lang: Diction and Syntax

Term to describe WORD CHOICE!

• syntax

• diction

• colloquial diction

• slang

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

SYNTAX can best be defined as...

• word choice

• sentence structure

• rhetorical question

• how we build argument

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B

dictionary definition of a word

• denotation

• connotation

• diction

• connote

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CONNOTATION

• Assimilation

• alliteration

• association

• allegorization

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

pun

• a type of parody

• a type of sarcasm

• a type of irony

• a play on words

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

an act or instance of placing two elements close together or side by side

• irony

• paradox

• juxtaposition

• chiasmus

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

a statement that is self contradictory

• paradox

• juxtaposition

• rhetorical question

• rhetorical fragment

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

When the going gets tough,

the tough get going!

• paradox

• parallelism

• chiasmus

• antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

WHO SAID IT? WHAT IS IT?

Ask not what your country can do for you

— ask what you can do for your country.

• JFK - Chiamsus!

• RFK - Antithesis

• MLK - Juxtaposition

• MC HAMMER - Rappastic!

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

• antithesis

• asyndeton

• anaphora

• epistrophe

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4