AP English Language and Composition Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms, List 5

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  1. adage
    a condensed but memorable saying embodying an important fact
  2. anecdote
    short account of an incident
  3. apostrophe
    an address to an absent or imaginary person
  4. apposition
    a relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows
  5. assonance
    the repetition of similar vowels in successive words
  6. asyndeton
    omission of conjunctions where they would normally be used
  7. consonance
    the repetition of sounds especially at the ends of words
  8. dramatic irony
    when the audience understands something the characters don't
  9. elegy
    a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
  10. free verse
    poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
Created on Wed Jun 04 12:34:12 EDT 2025

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