Ap Lang Rhetorical Devices

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Erin Doering September 29, 2013 AP Language and Composition Tropes and Schemes Alliteration- Repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence Let us go forth to lead the land we love. Betty had a baby boy. Allusion- Brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art Let both sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah. This place is like a Garden of Eden. Anaphora- Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need – not as a call to battle, though embattled we are My life is my purpose. My life is my goal. My life is my inspiration. Antimetabole- Repetition of words in reverse order Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country. Eat to live, not live to eat. Antithesis- Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction We shall support any friend, oppose any foe. Man proposes, God disposes Archaic Diction- Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words beliefs for which our forbears fought Asyndeton- Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty He received applause, prizes, money, fame. Cumulative sentence- Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence, and then builds and adds on But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course – both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind’s final war. "He dipped his hands in

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