More Devices
Movements
Rhetoric
Language Terms
Tone Descriptors
100
Lack of conjunctions, as in "I came; I saw; i conquered"
What is polysyndeton?
100
A movement comprised of writers like langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston
What is the Harlem Renaissance
100
A flaw in an argument.
What is a fallacy?
100
Overly technical terms
What is jargon?
100
Pedantic
What is overly concerned with rules?
200
Repetition of words at the beginning of the clauses
What is anaphora?
200
The home city of the expatriates of the 1920s
What is Paris?
200
An appeal to emotion
What is pathos?
200
The use of a less offensive word in place of a more offensive word (she passed on)
What is a euphemism?
200
Didactic
What is intended to instruct?
300
A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed.
What is chiasmus?
300
A movement that tried to capture concrete images in as few words as possible.
What is Imagism?
300
An attempt to establish credibility as a speaker uses this appeal
What is ethos?
300
The study of the history of a word.
What is etymology?
300
Belligerent
What is aggressive?
400
A perfect chiasmus.
What is antimetabole?
400
A movement that perceived humanity as powerless against nature and fate.
What is naturalism?
400
An attempt to use confusing or misleading language. This term comes from Orwell's 1984.
What is doublespeak?
400
An adjective which means that the meaning of a word has become more negative over time.
What is pejorative?
400
Lethargic
What is lazy?
500
A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite, as in This is no small problem.
What is litotes?
500
A general term for innovative literature in the 1920s-1940s
What is Modernism?
500
The perfect time to deliver a speech (think George Bush and the 9/11 speech)
What is kairos?
500
An informal term that typically only appears in the spoken version of a language (like ain't or yonder)
What is colloquialism?
500
Idiosyncratic
What is unique to a certain individual?
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