Ap Summer Terms Essay

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1. Metaphor-a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance
2. Simile-a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared
3. Personification-the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure
4. Alliteration-the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group
5. Assonance-resemblance of sounds
6. Point of View- a specified or stated manner of consideration or appraisal
7. 1st person point of view-the grammatical person used by a speaker in statements referring to himself or herself or to a group including himself or herself, as I and we in English
8. 3rd person limited point of view-The third-person objective employs a narrator who tells a story without describing any character's thoughts, opinions, or feelings
9. 3rd person omniscient point of view- in which the narrator is a character in the story, but also knows the thoughts and feelings of all the other characters
10. Parallelism-agreement in direction, tendency, or character; the state or condition of being parallel
11. Synecdoche-a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
12. Metonymy-a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related
13. Antithesis-the direct opposite
14. Anaphora-the use of a word as a regular grammatical substitute for a preceding word or group of words
15. Epistrophe/epiphora-the repetition of a word or words at the end of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences
16. Imagery-the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively
17. Rhetoric- the undue use of exaggeration or display
18. Author’s purpose- is his or her reason for creating a particular work
19. Style-the mode of expressing thought in writing or speaking by