AP Language & Composition: Common Rhetorical Terms
__1. AllegoryA. The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.
__2. AllusionB. An indirect reference
__3. AntecedentC. Word choice
__4. AphorismD. The literal or explicit meaning of a word
__5. ColloquialismE. The diction used by a certain group or profession
__6. ConnotationF. Emotional association with a word
__7. DenotationG. fiction, nonfiction or poetry that teaches a lesson/moral
__8. DictionH. Ordinary or familiar conversation
__9. DidacticI. Story in which characters, objects and events are symbolic
__10. JargonJ. "God helps those who help themselves."
__11. EllipsisA. Replacing a word/idea with a related concept
__12. EuphemismB. The deliberate omission of a word or phrase
__13. ImageryC. Placing things side by side for the purposes of comparison
__14. IronyD. A more agreeable, less offensive substitute of words/phrases
__15. JuxtapositionE. A kind of metonymy when a whole is represented by its parts
__16. MetonymyF. A word/words used to create a picture in the reader's mind
__17. MoodG. When what happens is not what is expected
__18. MotifH. atmosphere created in a text and accomplished by diction
__19. OxymoronI. A recurrent idea in a piece of literature/text
__20. SynecdocheJ. When two contradictory terms are placed together as truth
__21. ChiasmusA. A seemingly contradictory situation appearing true
__22. ParadoxB. Sentence construction of equal grammatical patterns nearby
__23. ParallelismC. When the same words are used twice, but reversed
__24. PolysyndetonD. Choices in diction, tone, and syntax that a writer makes
__25. StyleE. The central idea or message of a work
__26. ThemeF. A list of items separated by conjunctions
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