Persuasion
Language Features
Poetry
Spelling
Punctuation
100

Persuasive language that appeals to emotions 

emotive language

100

Giving human qualities to non-human things

Personification

100

The pattern of rhymes at the end of lines 

Rhyme scheme
100

Choose the correct spelling: seperate or separate.

separate

100

This punctuation mark is used to separate items in a list. 

comma

200

Using facts, data, or statistics to persuade

Logos

200

Repetition of the same starting consonant sound

Alliteration

200

A poem with no regular rhyme or rhythm  

free verse

200

Choose the correct spelling: embarrassing, embarassing

Embarrassing

200

This punctuation mark is used to introduce a quotation or direct speech.

Quotation marks
300

A question asked to make the audience think, not to answer.

rhetorical question

300

A word that imitates a sound

Onomatopoeia

300

 Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.

haiku

300

Choose the correct spelling to show posession: their, there, or they’re

their

300

This punctuation mark is used to show possession or contraction

Apostrophe

400

This term refers to the art of using language effectively to persuade an audience

Rhetoric


400

A comparison using “like” or “as”

Simile

400

A group of lines in a poem.

Stanza

400

Choose the correct spelling: definately or definitely

definitely

400

This punctuation mark is used to join two closely related independent clauses.

semicolon

500

Persuasion based on credibility or trustworthiness

ethos

500

An extreme exaggeration for effect

Hyperbole

500

A 14-line poem, often about love

Sonnet

500

Choose the correct spelling: accomodate or accommodate

accommodate

500

This punctuation mark shows that words have been left out of a sentence.

ellipsis

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