AP Lang Unit 2 Terms

Sounds, words, phrases, or ideas are deliberately used multiple times to achieve specific effects, such as emphasizing a point, creating rhythm and musicality, enhancing persuasiveness, establishing patterns, and evoking emotions in the audience or reader. 

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A figure of emphasis that occurs through the repetition of initial consonant letters (or sounds) in two or more different words across successive sentences, clauses, or phrases.

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Different words with the same or similar vowel sounds occur successively in words with different consonants; two or more words with similar vowel sounds are sandwiched between different consonants.

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

A literary device that repeats the same consonant sounds in adjacent or nearby words.

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Occurs when the first word or set of words in one sentence, clause, or phrase is/are repeated at or very near the beginning of successive sentences, clauses, or phrases; repetition of the initial word(s) over successive phrases or clauses.

• Anaphora

• Epistrophe

• Antithesis

• Epanalepsis

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A figure of repetition that occurs when the last word or set of words in one sentence, clause, or phrase is repeated one or more times at the end of successive sentences, clauses, or phrases.

• Anaphora

• Epistrophe

• Antithesis

• Epanalepsis

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A figure of balance in which two contrasting ideas are intentionally juxtaposed, usually through parallel structure; a contrasting of opposing ideas in adjacent phrases, clauses, or sentences.

• Anaphora

• Epistrophe

• Antithesis

• Epanalepsis

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Figure of emphasis in which the same word or words both begin(s) and end(s) a phrase, clause, or sentence; beginning and ending a phrase or clause with the same word or words.

• Anaphora

• Epistrophe

• Antithesis

• Epanalepsis

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A figure of speech and a form of wordplay where a single word or phrase is repeated within a sentence or clause, with each repetition carrying a different, often contrary, meaning

• Antanaclasis

• Polyptoton

• Anadiplosis

• Polysyndeton

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A rhetorical device that repeats a word with the same root but in a different form, case, or inflection.

• Antanaclasis

• Polyptoton

• Anadiplosis

• Polysyndeton

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4