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AP Lang & Comp Words

AP Lang & Comp Words. Andre Chia 12/13/12 per.3. When something is something else: the ladder of success (i.e., success is a ladder). The office is a bee-hive of activity on Mondays.’ Or recall the old anti-drug commercial: “This is your brain on drugs.”. Metaphor.

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AP Lang & Comp Words

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  1. AP Lang & Comp Words Andre Chia 12/13/12 per.3

  2. When something is something else: the ladder of success (i.e., success is a ladder). The office is a bee-hive of activity on Mondays.’ Or recall the old anti-drug commercial: “This is your brain on drugs.” Metaphor

  3. using a vaguely suggestive, physical object to embody a more general idea: CROWN for royalty; PEN is mightier than the SWORD. “If we cannot strike offenders in the heart, let us strike them in the wallet.” Metonymy

  4. Words that sound like what they mean: for example, buzz, click, rattle, clatter, squish, snap, crackle and pop, grunt Onomatopoeia

  5. using contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense: “Without laws, we can have no freedom. “Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar also makes use of a famous oxymoron: “ Cowards die many times before their deaths” (2.2.32) The Bible itself contains many a paradox: “He that would save his life must lose it; and he that would lose his life will save it” (Mark 8:35) Oxymoron

  6. When the write establishes similar patterns of grammatical structure and length. For instance, “King Alfred tried to make the law clear, precise, and equitable.” The previous sentence has parallel structure in use of adjectives. Parallelism

  7. A rhetorical term for phrases or clauses arranged independently: a coordinate, rather than a subordinate, construction. (Contrast with hypotaxis.) Adjective: paratactic. Parataxis

  8. A word, clause, or sentence inserted as an explanation or afterthought into a passage that is grammatically complete without it, in...One or both of a pair of marks () used to include such a word, clause, or sentence. Parenthesis

  9. giving human qualities to inanimate objects: “The ground thirsts for rain; the wind whispered secrets to us.” Personification

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