Devices with an a
The name of the device
Non-fiction categories
Devices with a, c, e or r
Anything goes
100

A number of words in close proximity start with the same lettet.

What is alliteration?

100

The device used here: Lincoln, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed...

What is alliteration?

100

You can find them in newspapers.

What is an article?

What are articles?

100

The device used here: "I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream."

What is repetition?

100

The device used here: "Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning."

What is contrast or antithesis?

200

The repetition of a word or a phrase at the beginning of successive sentences.

What is anaphora?

200

The device used here: "a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice."

What is a metaphor?

200

Something you give in front of an audience to entertain or persuade them.

What's a speech?

What are speeches?

200

The device used here: "The Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn."

What is assonance?

200

When the speaker establishes credibility.

What is ethos?

300

Using the same vowel sound in a numer of words close to each other.

What is assonance?

300

The device used here: "In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds."

What is contrast or antithesis?

300

A regularly updated website or web page, run by an individual or a group. It is written in an informal style.

What is a blog?

300

This is epiphora or epistrophe.

What is "words repeated at the end of a sentence?

300

When the speaker appeals to your feelings?

What is pathos?

400

Reference to a well-known person or event without mentioning the person or the event directly, but mentioning something related to it or them.

What is an allusion?

400

The device used here: "Five score years ago, a great American, signed a momentous decree that came as a great hope to millions of Negro slaves."

What is allusion?

400

A book someone has written about their own life.

What is an autobiography?

400

Rhetorical rhetorical devices in Danish.

What is "retoriske virkemidler"?

400

He gave the "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963.

Who is Martin Luther King?

500

A rhetorical device in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed.

What is an antithesis?

500

The device used here: "See no evil. Hear no evil. Speak no evil."

What is epiphora or epistrophe?

500

A book an author has written about a famous person's life.

What is a biography?

500

Also known as epistrophe—is a rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses.

What is epiphora?

500

The genre your chemistry book belongs to?

What is non-fiction?

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