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AP English 11

Luke Spencer

30 September 2011

• 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.

ANTECEDENT

• 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

ANTITHESIS

• 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)

APHORISM

• 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

APOSTROPHE

• 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

AMOSPHERE

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