That's What I Mean
Sounds Like This
Opposites Attract
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Anything Goes
100
The use of excessive exaggeration to make a point
What is Hyperbole?
100
The repetition of similar sounds, often at the end of a poetic line
What is Rhyme?
100
Contradictory terms appearing side by side.
What is an Oxymoron?
100
Comparing 2 things using "like" or "as"
What is a Simile?
100
An appeal either to the morals of the audience, or to the speaker's credibility
What is Ethos?
200
The secondary, potentially emotional implications and associations a word can have
What is Connotation?
200
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
What is Alliteration?
200
In writing, the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning
What is Irony?
200
The direct comparison of two unlike things that share a crucial similarity.
What is a Metaphor?
200
A story indicating the coming of age
What is a Bildungsroman?
300
The original noun to which a pronoun refers
What is an Antecedent?
300
The repetition of internal vowel sounds, often used to create a rhyming effect.
What is Assonance?
300
A statement that appears to contradict itself, which contains an embedded insight or idea
What is Paradox?
300
Making reference to a well-established figure, event, or work of literature.
What is an Allusion?
300
The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit
What is a Euphemism?
400
A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole
What is Synecdoche?
400
The use of words that imitate the sounds they describe
What is Onomatopoeia?
400
The placement of two things together with the intention of highlighting their differences
What is Juxtaposition?
400
A short fictitious story that is presented to teach a religious principle, simple truth or moral lesson
What is a Parable?
400
A quotation placed at the beginning of a poem, novel, or other literary work that indicates a primary idea of the text
What is an Epigraph?
500
A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it's closely associated
What is Metonymy?
500
The repetition of consonant sounds
What is Consonance?
500
A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite
What is a Litote?
500
An extended metaphor in which concrete objects or people have symbolic meaning
What is an Allegory?
500
The deductive chain of logical reasoning that begins with multiple premises (conditions) that lead to a conclusion
What is a Syllogism?
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