AP Lang Rhetorical Devices/Strategies

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Across
  1. 3. the direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction
  2. 7. inversion of normal syntactical structure of a sentence (Yoda Speak)
  3. 8. the repetition of words/phrases at the beginning of successive clauses/verses
  4. 10. a figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite
  5. 12. a deliberate omission of words but context clues reveals the meaning
  6. 13. a figure of speech in which a writer deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious
  7. 15. a type of sentence that appears to follow the inner working of the mind by mimicking the rambling, associative syntax of thought
  8. 17. AKA deductive reasoning - a form of argument or reasoning, consisting of two premises and a conclusion
  9. 18. the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words although its use may be grammatically or logically correct with only one
  10. 19. the attribution of human qualities/behaviors to an animal, object, or god
  11. 23. specialized language of a professional, occupational, or other group, often meaningless to outsiders
  12. 25. a humorous play on words to suggest a different meaning
  13. 27. a part is used to represent the whole or the whole for a part
  14. 28. the repetition of a word/phrase at the end of several clauses
  15. 30. a figure of speech in which the order of the terms in the first of two parallel clauses is reversed in the second
Down
  1. 1. exaggeration used for emphasis or effect
  2. 2. the repetition of conjunctions in close succession for rhetorical effect
  3. 4. a terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle
  4. 5. a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them
  5. 6. the repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next
  6. 9. a figure of speech in which one word or phrases is substituted for another with which it is closely related
  7. 11. the attribution of characteristics unlike its own
  8. 14. a reference to a person, place, event, or idea
  9. 16. an expression that, while an or odd or incorrect use of the language, has a meaning that is still understood
  10. 20. the repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause
  11. 21. a succession of phrasesof approximately equal length and corresponding structure
  12. 22. the omission of conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses
  13. 24. the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases
  14. 26. the author's call to action
  15. 29. a type of sentence in which the main idea is expressed at the end.