AP Rhet Devices review

An Extended Metaphor is a/an

• Hyperbole

• Conceit

• Simile

• Meta metaphor

The reversal of the normal order of words is …

• antithesis

• antimetabole

• parallelism

• inversion

EXAMPLE: "IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES, IT WAS THE WORST OF TIMES"

• antithesis

• antimetabole

• periodic sentence

• inversion

Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of multiple words

• anaphora

• alliteration

• allusion

• asyndeton

Balance within one or more sentences or phrases that have the same grammar structure

• parallelism

• polysyndeton

• anaphora

• asyndeton

Example: She taught me about geometry and about life.

• allusion

• zeugma

• antithesis

• polysyndeton

Which of these best represents ANAPHORA?

• I ate a hamburger AND a piece of pizza AND a burrito AND a cookie.

• Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.

• Give me the will to strive.

  Give me the courage to fight.

  Give me the power to win.

• Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.

A reference to a person , place, thing, or text in history or another work of literature

• Allusion

• Juxtaposition

• Conceit

• Metaphor

An act of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast

• Antithesis

• Polysyndeton

• Antimetabole

• Juxtaposition

a LACK of conjunctions between phrases, clauses, or words

• Asyndeton

• Antimetabole

• Polysyndeton

• Periodic sentence