AP Language: Rhetorical and Literary Terms
Reviewing Rhetorical Analysis Terms
Responsibilities
 Create a clear, easily understood definition for your term.
 Provide at least three examples of your term.
 Clearly explain the effect(s) of using your term.
 Create a memorable/creative way to remember your term.
 Email your work to Taylor.heatherly@cusd200.org by midnight the WEDNESDAY before your quiz
for that week. We will review the beginning of class every Thursday.
Remember, on the multiple choice portion of the AP test, these terms may be referenced (i.e. “All of the
following rhetorical strategies are used in the passage, EXCEPT”) and you could also use these terms in your
rhetorical analysis essay. Keep in mind, however, that it is more important to know the effect of a particular
rhetorical strategy than to remember its name.
Terms of the Week Quizzes: Working with Words and Creating Assessments
Premise: To work with the terms of the weeks as recorded in our working glossary. Working regularly
with these words will help us identify more vocabulary as it arises in objective questions and as it
may occur in provided reading passages.
Task: For the assigned terms of the week, create a multiple-choice or fill-in the
blank quiz that is exactly fifteen questions long. Consider the following
components as you create the questions:
 Create questions concerning definition, examples, and effect of
rhetorical terms. All questions should not be derived from only one of
these categories.
 There should be five multiple-choice options (a-e) for each multiplechoice question. Multiple-choice questions may be in the form of
matching, one question per choices, etc.
 Fill-in the blank questions should include an indication of the number
of words involved and may be accompanied by choices as well.
 Make the quiz reasonably difficult, but not so difficult that it would take
longer than ten minutes to complete the quiz.
 Write your name on the quiz as the quiz creator.
 Provide a typed version of the quiz on the due date. One of your peers will take the quiz on the due
date, while you take another student’s created quiz. You will grade the quiz you created and
receive a grade for the quiz you took as well.
 Week 1 Terms:
1) Allusion
2) Analogy
3) Appositive
4) Irony
5) Anecdote
6) Personification
7) Hyperbole
Week 2 Terms:
1) subordination/subordinate clause
2) Cumulative Sentence
3) Periodic Sentence
4) Imperative Sentence
5) Modifier
6) Mood
7) Tone
Week 3 Terms:
Week 4 Terms:
1) asyndeton
1) Pun
2) polysyndeton
2) Antithesis
3) anaphora
3)Parallelism
4) Inverted word order4)Metaphor
5) antecedent
5) Understatement
6) juxtaposition
6) Paradox
7) oxymoron