AP Lang Rhetorical Devices

Anything that can be related to with one of the five senses.

• IMAGERY

• ANECDOTE

• METAPHOR

• REPETITION

Word choice.

• DICTION

• REPETITION

• PERSONIFICATION

• METAPHOR

A reference to a person, event, or place in history, religious texts, or literature.

• REPETITION

• ALLUSION

• DICTION

• ANECDOTE

The comparison of two or more unlike things. - equates

• REPETITION

• METAPHOR

• DICTION

• SIMILE

question not asked for information but for the effect

• rhetorical

• syntax

• allusion

• satirical

question not asked for information but for the effect (not to be confused with HYPOPHORA)

• rhetorical question

• syntactical question

• allusion question

• satirical question

question not asked for information but for the effect.

• rhetorical

• syntax

• allusion

• satirical

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.

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

the arrangement of ideas in the second phrase or clause is a reversal of the first phrase or clause (A,B, B, A)

• antimetabole

• anaphora