AP Lang Final: Rhetorical Desserts

What: Final

When: Exam Day

Sign up for a rhetorical device or term on my classroom door, then look up definitions and examples. Consult with your teacher to make sure you fully understand the device or term you've selected.

Make, bake, or creatively assemble a breakfast food, dessert or snack food that either 

a) clearly defines your term, 

b) clearly illustrates your term, or 

c) clearly exemplifies your term.

Example: You bake a cake, and on it you write Marie Antionette. Historical allusion: "Let them eat cake." You CANNOT just bring a box or bag of something and smack a label on it, you have to put forward some effort to actually create something original.

It's a two-part grade: your presentation, and the thing you make.

1. You have to make a two-minute presentation covering your definition, your examples, your thought process in creating your offering, etc.
2. You bring your item -- enough for 10 or so folks to sample and enjoy -- and your own serving utensils, napkins, etc. (Note: do not break the bank unless you just want to make that much. There will be plenty to go around if we all make a little.)

It is possible to do this project alone or in pairs, but the expectations for greatness will be commensurate to the number of people (ie, two people should mean twice as good as one). 

When presentations are done, we head to the Green Room to enjoy your work and each other's company for the last time this year.

Devices to be Presented (you will sign up for one of these):

1. Anaphora

2. Epistrophe

3. Rule of 3

4. Power of One

5. Epizeuxis

6. Asyndeton

7. Polysyndeton

8. Hyperbole

9. Invective

10.Rant

11.Sarcasm

12.Syllogism

13.Oxymoron

14.Paradox

15.Alliteration

16.Allusion

17.Analysis

18.Litotes

19.Metonymy

20.Onomatopoeia

21.Metaphor

22.Simile

23.Long periodic sentence

24.Loose cumulative sentence

25.Appositive

26.Epithet

27.Aphorism

28.Anecdote

29.Enumeration

30.Antimetabole

31.Amplification

32.Antiphrasis