Devices with an a
A number of words in close proximity start with the same lettet.
What is alliteration?
The device used here: Lincoln, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed...
What is alliteration?
You can find them in newspapers.
What is an article?
What are articles?
The device used here: "I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream."
What is repetition?
The device used here: "Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning."
What is contrast or antithesis?
The repetition of a word or a phrase at the beginning of successive sentences.
What is anaphora?
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?
Something you give in front of an audience to entertain or persuade them.
What's a speech?
What are speeches?
The device used here: "The Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn."
What is assonance?
When the speaker establishes credibility.
What is ethos?
Using the same vowel sound in a numer of words close to each other.
What is assonance?
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?
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?
This is epiphora or epistrophe.
What is "words repeated at the end of a sentence?
When the speaker appeals to your feelings?
What is pathos?
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?
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?
A book someone has written about their own life.
What is an autobiography?
Rhetorical rhetorical devices in Danish.
What is "retoriske virkemidler"?
He gave the "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963.
Who is Martin Luther King?
A rhetorical device in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed.
What is an antithesis?
The device used here: "See no evil. Hear no evil. Speak no evil."
What is epiphora or epistrophe?
A book an author has written about a famous person's life.
What is a biography?
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?
The genre your chemistry book belongs to?
What is non-fiction?