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AP LANGUAGE FINAL PREP

AP LANGUAGE FINAL PREP. RHETORICAL TERMINOLOGY. I told you a million times to clean your room!. Hyperbole/Overstatement : A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect; an extravagant statement. My love is a red rose.

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AP LANGUAGE FINAL PREP

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  1. AP LANGUAGEFINAL PREP

  2. RHETORICAL TERMINOLOGY

  3. I told you a million times to clean your room!

  4. Hyperbole/Overstatement: A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect; an extravagant statement.

  5. My love is a red rose.

  6. Metaphor: A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.

  7. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny compared to what lies within us.

  8. Epistrophe: The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of several clauses.

  9. Romeo tells Mercutio he can’t dance because he has a “soul of lead”.

  10. Pun: A humorous play on words, using similar-sounding or identical words to suggest different meanings.

  11. The wind stood up and gave a shout.

  12. Anthropomorphism/Personification: The attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object.

  13. Francine’s love of sweets was her Achilles heel.

  14. Allusion: A brief, usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event that can be real or fictional.

  15. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.

  16. Simile: A figure of speech in which two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usually in a phrase introduced by "like" or "as."

  17. Chicken for dinner? Dinner will be ruined!

  18. Anadiplosis: the repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next.

  19. Instead of saying that you feel sad, you say “I feel blue”.

  20. Idiom: An expression that, while an odd or incorrect use of the language, has a meaning that is understood even though it is not clearly derived from the words that form it.

  21. Appointing a Wall Street insider to direct the Securities and Exchange commission is like telling Rush Limbaugh to make sure no one eats all the Halloween candy.

  22. Analogy: A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them.

  23. Hello darkness, my old friend.I've come to talk with you again.

  24. Apostrophe: The direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction, especially as a digression in the course of a speech or composition.

  25. The doctor turned to the nurse and said “Get me his vitals, STAT!”

  26. Jargon: The specialized language of a professional, occupational, or other group, often meaningless to outsiders.

  27. Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soul,And sings the tune--without the words,And never stops at all

  28. Extended Metaphor: A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.

  29. The green light at the end of Daisy’s dock in The Great Gatsby.

  30. Symbol: A person, place, action, or thing that (by association, resemblance, or convention) represents something other than itself.

  31. She was upstairs, and her children downstairs.

  32. Zeugma (zoog-mah): The use of a word to modify or govern two or more words although its use may be grammatically or logically correct with only one.

  33. If he cuts off your leg, it might hurt a little.

  34. Understatement: A figure of speech in which a writer deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is.

  35. In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, characters refer to clocks, which did not exist in ancient Rome.

  36. Anachronism: A person, scene, event, or other element in a work of literature that fails to correspond with the time or era in which the work is set.

  37. Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy. Many cities of men he saw and learned their minds, many pains he suffered, heartsick on the open sea, fighting to save his life and bring his comrades home.

  38. Invocation: A prayer or statement that calls for help from a god or goddess.

  39. One thousand sails pursued Paris as he fled Troy with Helen by his side.

  40. Synecdoche: A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole or the whole for a part.

  41. He’s not unfriendly.

  42. Litotes (lie-toe-tez): A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.

  43. A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking, whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave!

  44. Invective: Denunciatory or abusive language; discourse that casts blame on somebody or something.

  45. The only thing I know is that I know nothing.

  46. Paradox: A statement that appears to contradict itself.

  47. We saw her duck.

  48. Ambiguity: Multiple meanings, intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence or passage.

  49. If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?

  50. Double Entendre: A corruption of a French phrase meaning "double meaning,” the term is used to indicate a word or phrase that is deliberately ambiguous, especially when one of the meanings is risqué or improper.

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