Ap English vocab 2

Indicated by a series of three periods; shows that words have been omitted

• Ellipses
• Euphemism
• Irony
• Onomatopoeia

A figure of speech in which ideas or objects are described as having human qualities or personalities

• pun
• repetition
• Personification
• rhetorik

an environment that consists of time and place

• mood
• setting
• feeling
• Mr.scott

the manner in which the author uses and arranges word

• Style
• invective
• irony
• kenning

the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

• asyndeton
• wit
• anaphora
• whimsy

the quickness of intellect and the power and talent for saying brilliant things

• wit
• polysyndeton
• voice
• tone

the main idea of a piece of discourse

• thesis
• summary
• tone
• mood

a form of deductive reasoning inn which given certain ideas or facts.

• subtext
• stylistic devices
• theme
• syllogism

repetition of an idea using different words, often for emphasis or other effect

• rebuttal
• reiteration
• pun
• romance

the depiction of people, things, and events as they are without idealization or exaggeration for effect

• retration
• sarcasm
• realism
• pun