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8/4/24, 10:31 AMAP English 11 Summer Assignment
Jeremiah
Terms in this set (50)
a narrative in which the characters, behavior, and
even the setting demonstrate multiple levels of
Allegory meaning and significance. Often _____ is a universal
symbol or personified abstraction, such as Cupid
portrayed as a chubby angel with a bow and arrows.
the sequential repetition of a similar initial sound,
usually applied the consonants, usually in closely
Alliteration
proximate stressed syllables, for instance, "Sally
sells sea shells by the sea shore."
literary, historical, religious, or mythological
reference. For example, "Chocolate was her Achilles'
heel." This means that her weakness was her love of
chocolate. Achilles is a character in Greek
Allusion
mythology who was invincible. His mother dipped
him in magical water when he was a baby, and she
held him by the heel. The magic protected him all
over, except for his heel.
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the regular repetition of the same words or phrases
at the beginning of successive phrases of clauses.
From literature, consider the opening words from
Charles Dickens' Tale of Two Cities:
It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom,
it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief,
Anaphora it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of Light,
it was the season of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope,
it was the winter of despair,
we had everything before us,
we had nothing before us,
we were all going direct to Heaven,
we were all going direct the other way
Another good example is Martin Luther King "I Have
a Dream" speech
the juxtaposition sharply contrasting ideas in
balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical
Antithesis structrue or ideas
i.e. Money is the root of all evils: poverty is the fruit
of all goodness.
a concise statement designed to make a point or
illustrate a commonly held belief. Example:
Aphorism
Ignorance is bliss and everyone dies but not
everyone lies
An address or invocation to something inanimate.
Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk to
Apostrophe
you again.
rhetorical arguments in which the speaker claims to be an authority or expert in a field,
attempts to play upon the emotions, or appeals to the use of reason. Classically trained
Appeals to authority, emotion, or logic
rhetoricians identify these appeals with their Greek names: ethos is authority, pathos is
emotion, and logos is logic
the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds,
usually in successive or proximate word "The rain in
Assonance
Spain falls mainly in the plain"
a syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series, usually producing
Asyndeton more rapid proses for example, "Veni, vidi, vici (I came, I saw, I conquered)," supposedly
said by Julius Caesar.
the sense expressed by the tone of voice or the mood of a piece of writing; the
author's feelings toward his or her subject, characters, events, or theme. It might even
Attitude
be his or her feelings for the reader. AP English exam essay prompts often require
students to respond to some aspect of the attitude ofthe writer, speaker, or narrator.
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