AP English Notes
Ellipses: An ellipsis is a series of three dots, used to create a pause in thinking or, when quoting, to omit information. The deliberate omission of a word or words readily implied by context.
Examples:
The man looked above . . . all he could see were three black silhouettes against the bright blue sky.
When the man looked above he couldn't quite believe what he saw . . . .
In the anime world, Naruto is a hero; Goku, a legend.
Enjambment (poetic element): Enjambment is the breaking of a syntactic unit (a phrase, clause, or sentence) by the end of a line or between two verses. It is to be contrasted with end-stopping, where each linguistic unit corresponds with a single line, and caesura, in which the linguistic unit ends mid-line.
Examples:
'Don't Ask Me, Love, For That First Love' shows enjambment in its various strengths; the second line, ending at the same time as the sentence, is completely end-stopped
I am not prone to weeping, as our sex
Commonly are; they want of which vain dew
Perchance shall dry your pities; but I have
That honorable grief lodged here which burns
Worse than tears drown.
Meaning flows as the lines progress, and the reader’s eye is forced to go on to the next sentence. It can also make the reader feel uncomfortable or the poem feel like “flow-of-thought” with a sensation of urgency or disorder.
Epigram: The Epigram is expressed in various ways:
A. In the Epigrammatic style. It now refers to a style marked by point and brevity. It does not necessarily involve contrast.
B. Emphatic assertion. "What I have written, I have written."
C. Indirect or concealed statement. A kind of mingling of literal and figurative.
D. Punning
E. Paradox
Examples:
"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing."
(Oscar Wilde) "No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend."
(Groucho Marx)
Epistrophe: A rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase at the
Examples:
The man looked above . . . all he could see were three black silhouettes against the bright blue sky.
When the man looked above he couldn't quite believe what he saw . . . .
In the anime world, Naruto is a hero; Goku, a legend.
Enjambment (poetic element): Enjambment is the breaking of a syntactic unit (a phrase, clause, or sentence) by the end of a line or between two verses. It is to be contrasted with end-stopping, where each linguistic unit corresponds with a single line, and caesura, in which the linguistic unit ends mid-line.
Examples:
'Don't Ask Me, Love, For That First Love' shows enjambment in its various strengths; the second line, ending at the same time as the sentence, is completely end-stopped
I am not prone to weeping, as our sex
Commonly are; they want of which vain dew
Perchance shall dry your pities; but I have
That honorable grief lodged here which burns
Worse than tears drown.
Meaning flows as the lines progress, and the reader’s eye is forced to go on to the next sentence. It can also make the reader feel uncomfortable or the poem feel like “flow-of-thought” with a sensation of urgency or disorder.
Epigram: The Epigram is expressed in various ways:
A. In the Epigrammatic style. It now refers to a style marked by point and brevity. It does not necessarily involve contrast.
B. Emphatic assertion. "What I have written, I have written."
C. Indirect or concealed statement. A kind of mingling of literal and figurative.
D. Punning
E. Paradox
Examples:
"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing."
(Oscar Wilde) "No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend."
(Groucho Marx)
Epistrophe: A rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase at the