repetition of a phrase at the end of successive sentences.
What is Epistrophe
100
way words are put together
What is Syntax
100
a comparison without using like or as
What is Metaphor
100
accepted manner, model or tradition
What is Convention
100
A word or phrase that links different ideas
What is Transition
200
kinder, less harsh or hurtful way of expressing unpleasant information
What is Euphemism
200
literary work that holds up human failings to ridicule and censure
What is Satire
200
substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself
What is Metonymy
200
diction of the common, ordinary folks, especially in a specific region or area.
What is Colloquial
200
the sentence or group of sentences that directly express the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or proportion
What is Thesis
300
interpretation of analysis of a text
What is Exposition
300
direct, explicit comparison (Uses like or as)
What is Simile
300
using words that imitate the sound they denote
What is Onomatopoeia
300
implied, suggested, or underlying meaning of a word or phrase
What is Connotation
300
Author's attitude toward subject matter as revealed through style, syntax, diction, figurative language, and organization.
What is tone
400
A poem or prose work that laments, or meditates upon the death of, a person or persons
What is Elegy
400
figure of speech in which a part signifies the whole
What is Synecdoche
400
location of one thing adjacent of juxtaposed with another
What is Juxtaposition
400
figure of speech, syntactical structure wherein the order of the terms in the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in the second.
What is Chiasmus
400
Intellectual and verbal deftness. Emphaisis on imagination. Intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights.
What is Wit
500
praise of a dead person
What is Epitaph
500
literary work that holds up human failings to ridicule and censure
What is Satire
500
figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement
What is Litote
500
assessment of analysis of something for the purpose of determining what it is, what its limitations are, and who it conforms to the standard of the genre.
What is Critique
500
A device that joins together two apparently incongruous things by applying a verb or adjective to both which only really applies to one of them
"Kill the boys and the luggage" -Shakespeare's Henry V