reverse parallelism; Second part is the reverse of the first part in grammatical structure. BUT NOT WORDS.
What is learned unwillingly, is gladly forgotten
What is chiasmus?
100
compares two similar things to help clarify a difficult idea.
What is an analogy?
100
Time Period in which the Declaration of Independence was written. Reason and Logic prevailed.
What is The Enlightenment?
100
Commissioner Gordon raised taxes, and then the rate of violent crime went up. Gordon is responsible for the rise in crime.
What is faulty causality?
200
reference to something in our cultural past
What is an allusion?
200
One word irony
What is antiphrasis
200
a noun that comes right after another noun that renames it
What is an appositive?
200
The cultural period that followed the birth of America, focusing on emotion and instinct. . . and NATURE.
What is Romanticism?
200
Please don't give me a ticket officer. I know I was speeding, but my grandmother just died and I had to miss my senior prom because of it!
What is appeal to emotion?
300
repetition of same word or words at the beginning of successive clauses or phrases
What is anaphora?
300
Use dashes and leave statement unfinished
What is aposiopesis?
300
omitting conjugation between nouns, phrases, clauses
What is asyndeton?
300
Genre of literature that focuses on the supernatural, the creepy and the damsel in distress.
What is Gothic literature?
300
Studying for exams is like waterski in the desert.
What is faulty analogy?
400
repeats the last word of one phrase/clause/sentence at the beginning of the next one
What is anadiplosis?
400
deny the opposite of what you mean
What is apophasis?
400
choosing an item that is closely associated with subject to stand for that subject.
What is metonymy?
400
clever saying of known authorship that expresses a truth
What is aphorism?
400
Mrs. P's English exam last year was really hard; all English exams are going to be really hard!
What is Hasty Generalization?
500
reversing of the order of repeated SAME words or phrases
What is antimetabole?
500
Establish CONTRASTING relationship between two ideas that are juxtaposed
What is antithesis?
500
deny or negate the opposite?
What is litotes?
500
Persuasive essay style that includes an introduction, a narration, confirmation, refutation and a conclusion.
What is Aristotelian or Classical argument?
500
Marie Church's ideas on genetic testing should be ignored; she has read hair and is clearly quite evil.