Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Rhetorical Terms to Review

You should become familiar with the following rhetorical terms. Your CliffsAP book defines them, starting on p. 65. Some of them will already be familiar to you:

ad hominem argument
antithesis
conceit
loose sentence
parallelism
periodic sentence
rhetorical appeal
rhetorical mode
syllogism
understatement

The following terms (which are also listed in your CliffsAP book) should already be familiar to you. If that is not the case, you should become familiar with them.

allegory  
alliteration
allusion
analogy
atmosphere
caricature
clause
diction
euphemism
figure of speech
genre
hyperbole
imagery
irony
juxtaposition
metaphor
mood
narrative
oxymoron
paradox
parody
personification
point of view
prose
repetition
rhetorical question
satire
simile
subordinate (dependent) clause
syntax
theme
thesis
time
transition