AP Review Rhetorical Devices

The restaurant has been acting quite rudely lately.

• metonymy

• synecdoche

"You'll make the right decision because you have something that not many people do: you have heart."

• logos

• pathos

• ethos

Which line has an example of synesthesia?

• Mists rest on the ocean

• I call your vastness home

• Susie felt the taste of love.

when the audience of a drama, play, movie, etc, knows something that the character doesn't and would be surprised to find out.

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

• verbal irony

a folk saying with a lesson

• adage

• allegory

• euphemism

• imagery

Identify the paradox.

• The best advice I have for you is: don’t listen to advice.
• The rains came.
• Parting is such sweet sorrow.
• She cared for him all his life.

You stood up for America, now America must stand up for you.

• Anadiplosis

• Antimetabole

• Appeals

• Audience

when the plot of a book, story, or movie is ironic. Sometimes it might make you laugh because it's funny how things turn out.

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

• verbal irony

Why might a writer choose to use synesthesia?

• To represent a certain object by using a closely associated object

• To suggest that a nonhuman object might have human qualities

• To offer the reader a surprising way of experiencing the senses

• To create a regular pattern with the sounds of language

a terse (abrupt) statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle. Can be a memorable summation of the author's point. "A watched pot never boils."

• anecdote

• irony

• euphemism

• aphorism