Rhetoric
Comparison without using like or as
What is metaphor?
Characterized by significant difference between what is expected or understood and what actually happens or is meant
What is irony?
An overstatement characterized by exaggerating
What is hyperbole?
Sensory details in a work that invoke the five senses
What is imagery?
Comparison using like or as
What is simile
Treating an abstraction or nonhuman object as if it were a person by giving it human qualities
What is personification?
—A figure of speech which makes brief, even casual reference to a historical or literary figure, event, or object
What is an allusion?
The repetition of initial consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
A brief story about something that happened to the speaker/writer
What is an anecdote?
Using words to suggest a social or emotional meaning rather than a literal one.
What is connotation?
A question that isn’t intended to be answered
What is a rhetorical question?
repeating grammatically similar phrases or sentences
What is parallelism?
How the writer feels about the subject he or she is writing/speaking about
What is tone?
How the speaker/writer's subject matter makes the reader feel
What is mood?
An author's choice of words to convey a tone or effect
What is diction?
Character or force in a literary work that opposes the main character
What is the antagonist?
A figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements, as in "jumbo shrimp" or "deafening silence."
What is oxymoron?
The main character in a story
What is the protagonist?
A statement that seems contradictory, but is actually true
What is a paradox?
When you come to a sudden realization
What is an epiphany?
A literary style used to make fun of or ridicule an idea or human vice or weakness
What is satire?
A satirical imitation of a work of art for purpose of ridiculing its style or subject.
What is a parody?
An imaginary place of ideal perfection. The opposite of a dystopia.
What is a utopia?
Comparison of two things that are alike in some respects. Metaphors and similes are both types of this.
What is an analogy?
Give me an example of alliteration.
Ex: Sally Sold Seashell by the Seashore