AP English Language & Composition                            Mr. Mooney & Mrs. Pagani

Literary Terminology

 

Rhetorical Style/Strategies

 

Rhetoric: 

Nonfiction:

Types of…

-         narration:

-         description:

-         exposition:

-         persuasion:

Genres of…

-         autobiography/biography:

-         diary:

-         letter/epistle:

-         essay:

-         speech/sermon:

 Structure/Organization/Patterns/Arrangement of…

-         (narration:)

-         (description:)

-         illustration:

-         definition:

-         classification/division:

-         cause and effect:  situation

-         compare and contrast:

-         process analysis:

-         order of importance (chronological, climatic, spatial):

Figures of Rhetoric/”Schemes”

-         anecdote:

-         digression/aside:

-         concession:

-         apostrophe:

Figures of Speech/”Tropes”

-         analogy

o       metaphor:

o       simile:

 

-         personification:

 

-         synechdoche:

 

 

-         metonymy: 

 

 

-         euphemism:

-         pun:

-         allusion:

-         images vs. details:

-         symbol

o       motif:

o       archetype:

-         irony:

-         litotes:

 

SOAPSS

-         Subject

-         Occasion

-         Audience

-         Purpose

-         Speaker

-         Style

 

Other

-         point of view:

-         mood/atmosphere:

-         shift:

 

The Two “Biggies”

-         attitude:

-         tone: