Examples
Definitions
Words
Figures Of Speech
Miscellaneous
100
South park, Saturday Night Live, ect.
What is Caricature?
100
A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule.
What is Satire?
100
Allegory
What is the device of using character or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning?
100
The repetition of sounds, especially the initial consonant sound. A tounge twister.
What is alliteration?
100
The sensory details of figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represetn abstractions. To paint a picture in your mind.
What is imagery?
200
Her hair was silk.
What is a metaphor?
200
The non-literal, associative meaning of a word. or the implied suggested meaning.
What is connotation?
200
Aphorism
What is A memorable summation of the authors point?
200
Closely grouped contradictory words, such as Bitter sweet.
What is oxymoron?
200
An extreme exaggeration or overstatement.
What is hyperbole?
300
You're a nasty wasty skunk
What is Invective?
300
When one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another.
What is Synesthesia?
300
Litotes
What is similar to an understatement?
300
A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some truth or validity.
What is Paradox?
300
This is where the author of a novel already expects you to know about a previous novel. Such as Romeo and Juliet.
What is allusion?
400
Martin Luther Kings Speeches
What is homily?
400
To have multiple meanings or a deeper meaning
What is ambiguity?
400
Pedantic
What is an adjective that describes words and phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish?
400
A figure of speech in which part of something is used to represent a whole.
What is synecdoche?
400
The contrast between what is really meant and what actually happens.
What is Irony?
500
All men are mortal Socrates is a man Therefore Socrates is mortal.
What is Syllogism?
500
The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing. To write in a more conversational way.
What is collpuial/collopuialism?
500
Subordinate Clause
What is A word group that contains both a subject and a verb, but unlike independant clauses, it cannot stand alone?
500
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or idea.
What is Apostrophe?
500
To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented.
What is Inference?
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