AP Lang Midterm Review

The literal, explicit meaning of a word, without all of its associations.

• connotation

• denotation

• litotes

• irony

A terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle; a wise saying.

• rhetoric

• connotation

• irony

• aphorism

Placing things side by side for the purpose of comparison

• paradox

• anaphora

• paralepsis

• juxtaposition

The relationships in any piece of writing, between the writer, the audience, and the subject. All analysis of writing is essentially an analysis of the relationships between these different points.

• paradox

• paralepsis

• rhetorical triangle

• hyperbole

Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences or clauses in a row. This is a deliberate form of repetition and helps make the writer's point more coherent.

• aphorism

• anaphora

• allusion

• alliteration

To make a pointed comparison; often a very powerful comparison

• analogy

• hyperbole

• allusion

• anaphora

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

• connotation

• allusion

• anaphora

• paradox

"I have the patience of Job." This is an example of which rhetorical term?

• parallelism

• euphemism

• allusion

• personification

After they were separated for over two years, Hester sees Roger Chillingworth for the first time when

• he visits her and Pearl in the jail.

• she spots him standing in the marketplace crowd around the scaffold.

• he climbs the balcony and shouts at her to reveal her partner.

• they accidentally meet in the graveyard.

• he returns to their shared home.

After Hester is ordered to reveal her partner, what character says, "Wondrous strength and generosity of a woman's heart! She will not speak!"?

• Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale

• Reverend John Wilson

• Governor Bellingham

• the town beadle

• Roger Chillingworth