Rhetorical Devices
The repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
Specific to general
What is inductive reasoning?
The telling of a story in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama; one of the four modes of discourse.
What is narration?
A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between dissimilar objects.
What is a conceit?
a punctuation mark indicating a pause between parts of a sentence. It is also used to separate items in a series.
What is a comma?
A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them.
What is analogy?
A comparison without using like or as.
What is metaphor?
What is tone?
Expressing the same idea in different words to clarify and stress key points.
What is restatement?
A punctuation mark used to indicate that there is information to follow.
What is a colon?
A reference to another work of literature, person, or event.
What is allusion?
A simple story used to illustrate or spiritual lesson.
What is parable?
A comparison using like or as.
What is simile?
A kind of speaking or writing that is intended to influence people's actions.
What is persuasion?
A punctuation mark used to connect independent clauses.
What is a semicolon?
The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.
What is rhetorical question?
Description that appeals to the senses.
What is imagery?
Subjects and verbs must agree in number and person.
What is subject verb agreement?
A pronoun is a word that substitutes for a noun. The pronoun or noun that they refer to are called_______.
What is antecedent?
Reasoning from general to specific.
What is deductive reasoning?
A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa.
What is synecdoche?
Repetition of the same pattern of words, phrases, or clauses to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance.
What is parallel structure?
A sentence with one independent clause and one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
This prefix means self.
What is auto?