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AP Language and Composition. Review of Rhetorical Strategies. Definition. Might be called “reverse parallelism,” since the second part of a grammatical structure is balanced or paralleled by the first part, only in reverse order . Definition.
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AP Language and Composition Review of Rhetorical Strategies
Definition • Might be called “reverse parallelism,” since the second part of a grammatical structure is balanced or paralleled by the first part, only in reverse order
Definition • A type of metaphor in which the part stands for the whole, the whole for part
Definition • Repetition of a word or phrase after an intervening word or phrase as a method of emphasis
Definition • Consists of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses
Definition • The repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences
Definition • A general term describing when one part of speech (most often the main verb, but sometimes a noun) governs two or more other parts of a sentence (often in a series).
Definition • The use of a conjunction between each word, phrase, or clause
Definition • A final form of hyperbaton, consists of a word, phrase, or whole sentence inserted as an aside in the middle of another sentence • Insertion of a verbal unit that interrupts normal syntactical flow.
Definition • Interrupts the discussion or discourse and addresses directly a person or personified thing, either present or absent. Its most common purpose in prose is to give vent to or display intense emotion, which can no longer be held back.
Definition • Establishes a clear, contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing them, often in parallel structure
Definition • Another form of metaphor in which the thing chosen for the metaphorical image is closely associated with (but not an actual part of) the subject with which it is to be compared
Example • It is boring to eat; to sleep is fulfilling
Example • We await word from the crown.
Example • As Virgil guided Dante through Inferno, the Sibyl Aeneas Avernus. —Roger D. Scott
Example • Listen, you've got to come take a look at my new set of wheels.
Example • I said, "Who killed him?" and he said, "I don't know who killed him but he's dead all right," and it was dark and there was water standing in the streetand no lights and windows broke and boats all up in the town and trees blown down and everything all blown and I got a skiff and went out and found my boat where I had her inside Mango Key and she was all right only she was full of water.—Ernest Hemingway, "After the Storm."
Example • "All lost! To prayers, to prayers! All lost!"
Example • "It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." —Abraham Lincoln • "It can't be wrong if it feels so right" —Debbie Boone
Example • O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!Thou art the ruins of the noblest manThat ever lived in the tide of times.—Shakespeare, Julius Caesar 3.1.254-257
Example • Veni, vidi, vici (Caesar: "I came,I saw,I conquered")
Example • This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, Thisother Eden, demi-paradise,Thisfortress built by Nature for herselfAgainst infection and the hand of war,This happy breed of men, this little world,This precious stone set in the silver sea,Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Example • He came at night, at precisely 10:25, to ask for you. • Dogs have (like every other predator) the killer instinct. • Him I must speak to – if I can – today itself.
