A.p. Language And Composition Rhetorical Terms & Glossary

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Aphorism

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A short, often witty statement of a principle or a truth about life: "Early bird gets the worm"

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Apostrophe

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Usually in poetry but sometimes in prose; the device of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction

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Argumentation

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writing that attempts to prove the validity of a point of view or an idea by presenting reasoned arguements; persuasive writing is a form of this

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Assonance

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repitition of vowel sounds between different consonants, such as neigh/fade

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Asyndeton

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Commas used (with no conjunction) to seperate a series of words

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Cacophony

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Harh, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose; opposite of euphony

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Caricature

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Descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a person's appearance or a faced of personality

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Colloquialism

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a word or phrase used in everyday conversation and informal writing but that is often inappropriate in formal writing

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Coherence

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Quality of a piece of writing in which all the parts contribute to the development of the central idea, theme, or organization

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Concrete Language

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Language that describes specific, observable things, people, or places, rather than ideas or qualities