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AP English 11
Luke Spencer
30 September 2011
ANTECEDENT
• DEFENITION- An antecedent is another name for the noun that
comes before the pronoun in the sentence.
• Example: I get worried when the neighbors let their dog out.
In this example, the antecedent is neighbors, and the noun in their.
• Example: The dog goes wild, and he always messes up my front
yard.
In this example, the antecedent is dog and the noun is he.
• Example: I get worried when my employees let their hair down.
In this example, the antecedent is employees, and the noun is their.
ANTITHESIS
• DEFINITION- An antithesis is when ideas or clauses contradict
each other to convey a stronger idea.
• Antithesis occurs when you place to contrasting or opposite ideas
near each other. The contradiction acts as a grammatical “punch
line”
• Example: “One small step for a man, one giant leap for all
mankind.” Neil Armstrong
• Example: “If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it
cannot save the few who are rich.” -JFK
• Example: “I pass with relief from the tossing sea of cause and
theory to the firm ground of result and fact.” -Churchill
APHORISM
• DEFINITION- An aphorism is a short statement or opinion of a
broad truth or idea
• "All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are
running from, and to, and why.“ (James Thurber)
• ”Your children need your presence more than your presents.”
• “The first rule of Fight Club is…you do not talk about Fight Club.”
(Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden, Fight Club)
APOSTROPHE
• DEFINITION- An apostrophe is when someone (or something) absent or
dead is addressed as if it were alive and present. CAN BE USED FOR
OBJECTS also.
• Usually used in poems
• EX. “Busy old fool, unruly sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains call on us?”
-John Donne
EX. Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are?
EX. “Blue Moon, you saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own.”
-Lorenz Hart
AMOSPHERE
• DEFINITION- Atmosphere is the mood that the author establishes
through description of a setting, or by the objects he chooses to describe.
• Example: It was a dark rainy day and there wasn’t a star in the sky.
• More Complex Example: "Elsewhere, night falls, but in Moonlight Bay, it
steals upon us with barely a whisper, like a gentle dark-sapphire surf
licking a beach.“ Dean Koontz
• “The woman raised her hands and stared at them; stared through them.
Her voice was soft but tense. ‘Blood on his hands.’ Her own hands were
clean and pale.” -Dean Koontz
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