Diction and Style
The sensory details or figurative language used to paint a picture or describe and arouse emotion.
What is imagery?
A figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one for the other.
What is a metaphor?
What is LOGOS?
A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.
What is hyperbole?
Describes the author's attitude toward his material, the audience, or both.
What is tone?
The non-literal, associative meaning of a word; implied, suggested meaning.
What is connotation?
Repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses for rhetorical or poetic effect.
A rhetorical appeal to an audience based on the speaker/writer's credibility.
What is ETHOS?
The “side by side” comparison of two or more objects or ideals for the purpose of highlighting similarities or differences.
What is juxtaposition?
The prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work.
The way and author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences.
What is syntax?
A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity.
What is paradox?
A broad, general principle and applying it to a specific case to reach a skewed logical conclusion.
What is deductive reasoning?
An oxymoron is a figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox.
What is oxymoron?
The central idea or message of a work.
What is theme?
Lack of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words.
What is asyndeton?
Repetition of a prominent and usually the last word in one phrase or clause at the beginning of the next.
What is anadiplosis?
A flaw or error in logical thinking that invalidates an argument.
What is a fallacy?
Opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction.
What is antithesis?
A recurring element, image, or idea that helps develop and inform the overall theme of a work.
The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing. Gives a conversational, or familiar tone.
What is colloquialism?
What is chiasmus?
An appeal related to "the right time."
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite.
What is litotes?
The urgent, real-life spark, problem, or controversial situation that motivates a writer to create a work in that moment.
What is exigence?