giving human qualities to an animal or inanimate object
What is personification?
100
a comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
100
narrowly, unimaginatively, and often pretentiously learned; overly concerned with minute details
What is pedantic?
100
when the point is made at the end of a sentence
What is a periodic sentence?
200
a comparison using "is" or "was"
What is a metaphor?
200
when two opposite words are placed together
What is oxymoron?
200
a play on words
What is a pun?
200
scornfully and bitterly sarcastic; derisively mocking
What is sardonic?
200
a sentence with two independent clauses joined by a comma and conjunction or by a semicolon
What is a compound sentence?
300
when there are two situations that seem like they couldn't be true at the same time but somehow are
What is a paradox?
300
when conjunctions are left out and only commas are used instead (ex. She is kind, humble, caring.)
What is asyndeton?
300
an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast
What is juxtaposition?
300
habitually complaining; complaining in a petulant or whining manner
What is querulous?
300
when the main point is made at the beginning of the sentence and additional phrases and clauses are added on
What is a cumulative or loose sentence?
400
a reference to someone or something outside the work itself
What is an allusion?
400
when extra conjunctions are used and commas are left out (ex. We ran and jumped and played.)
What is polysyndeton?
400
addressing someone or something that cannot talk back to you, either because they're not present, they're dead, or they're an animal or inanimate object
What is apostrophe?
400
having more than one possible meaning; not expressed or understood clearly
What is ambiguous?
400
when two or more ideas in a sentence are
alike in form and purpose and are expressed in the same grammatical form
What is parallel structure or parallelism?
500
something closely associated with a person or thing used to represent him or it (ex. "The White House said today...")
What is metonymy?
500
when part of something is used to represent a whole (ex. "all hands on deck")
What is synecdoche?
500
a question asked just for effect or to place emphasis on some point discussed when no real answer is expected
What is a rhetorical question?
500
characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound; commanding attention by a loud or obtrusive quality
What is strident?
500
the arrangement of words and phrases to convey an intended meaning