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Ap Exam Study Guide

The document provides a study guide for the AP exam by listing over 70 literary and rhetorical terms that students should understand, including parts of speech, literary devices, rhetorical devices, appeals, style, and syntax. Mastering the definitions and meanings of these terms will help students succeed on the exam.

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Ap Exam Study Guide

The document provides a study guide for the AP exam by listing over 70 literary and rhetorical terms that students should understand, including parts of speech, literary devices, rhetorical devices, appeals, style, and syntax. Mastering the definitions and meanings of these terms will help students succeed on the exam.

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AP EXAM STUDY GUIDE: be sure you understand the meaning (all parts) of

each of the following terms in order to be successful on the exam:


Connotation

allusion

Denotation

colloquial

Didactic
presumptuous

asyndeton
chiasmus

passive voice

Inference

statistics

indolent

Voice

imagery

cajoled

Appeals
Ethos

anaphora
logos

admonished
pathos

Brazen

adulation

feckless

Excerpt

propitious

rhetorical

Style

preposterous

Syntax

alternate

corroborate

condescending

Clich

encumbered

irony

Paradox

perspicuity

soliloquy

Ellipsis

collusion

elitist

Appositive

primary

nostalgic

Infinitive

generalization

metaphor

Analogy

mournful

Choleric

contemptuous

Capacious

resigned

Vacillated

pathetic fallacy

Trepidation

rhetorical question

Hegemony

personification

Subordinate clause

arrogant

Dramatic monologue

metonymy
digression
ridicule
alliteration
understatement
hypocrisy
complex sentence

deductive reasoning

epithet

Peril

hyperbole

parallel syntax

Antithesis

tone

diction

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