AP Eng Lang Terms

Pedantic

Invective

Antithesis

Colloquialism

Euphemism

Non Sequitur

Aphorism

Epigram

Allegory

Anachronism

Litotes

"When I said I have to lay you off a parallel universe was born in his face"

"I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will make them honored, and they shall not be small."

"Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old age regret."

“To err is human; to forgive divine.”

“Well, it is a good book, and everyone should read it. The notion is that if we aren’t to look out then our whole culture shall be submerged. It’s mostly scientific but it has all been proven…"

"I ain't gonna drink a soda."

“A knave, a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave … and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel"

"That title from a better man I stole: Ah, how much better, had I stol’n the whole."

J.R.R. Tolkien fought in World War I, and The Lord of the Rings serves as an explanation of the events of that war.

BRUTUS: Peace! Count the clock. CASSIUS: The clock hath stricken three. TREBONIUS: ‘Tis time to part.

“What are you doing?” Yossarian asked guardedly when he entered the tent, although he saw at once. “When I was a kid,” Orr replied, “I used to walk around all day with crab apples in my cheeks. One in each cheek.”