An author or speaker references somthing from history, religion, or popular culture while assuming the audience will understand the reference.
What is allusion?
100
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
What is juxtaposition?
100
Sentence used to comand, enjoin, implore, or entreat.
What is imperative sentence?
100
Sentence that exhorts, advises, or calls to action.
What is a horative sentence?
100
Attribution (giving) of lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea
What is personification?
200
Comparison of two unlike things using like or as
What is a simile?
200
Sentence that completes the main idea at the begining of the sentence, and then builds and adds on
What is a cumulative sentence?
200
The occasion or the timea nd place something was written or spoken
What is context?
200
Using a single feature to represent the whole
What is metonymy?
200
Comparison of two unlike things that DOES NOT use like or as
What is a metaphor?
300
As defined by Aristotle, "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion." Also defined as, the art of using language effectively and persuasively
What is rhetoric?
300
An appeal to logic or using facts and data to sway your audience.
What is logos?
300
When the begining sound of consecutive words is the same. Silly Sarah saw Sammi swinging.
What is alliteration?
300
The goal a speaker or writer wants to achieve.
What is purpose?
300
Inverted (changed around) order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order)
What is inversion?
400
A question the speaker does not intend for the audience to answer - but is being ask to drive home a point.
What is a rhetorical question?
400
Appeal to ethics by proving credibility of speaker or his/her source of information
What is ethos?
400
Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another (peaceful revolution).
What is oxmoron?
400
Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
What is parallelism?
400
Appeal to emotions
What is pathos?
500
Using words or phrases that are no longer used in common language today.
What is archaic diction?
500
The arrangement of words and the choice of words/language.
What is syntax and diction?
500
Narration, Description, Process Analysis, Exemplification, Compare/Contrast, Classification/Division, Definition, Cause/Effect
What are the 8 patterns of development of a text?
500
Graphic description of the interaction between speaker, audience, and subject