What is the body of devices that enables the writer to operate on levels other than the literal one. It includes metaphor, simile, symbol, motif, and hyperbole, etc.
100
Euphamism
What is a more acceptable and usually more pleasant way of saying something that might be innappropriate or uncomfortable. " He went to his final reward" is a common __________ for "he died". __________ are also often used to obscure the reality of a situation.
100
Antecedent
What is the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers. The AP English Language and Composition Exam often expects you to identify the antecedent in a passage?
100
Non sequiter
(from Latin, "it does not follow")
What starts a conclusion that doesn't follow from one or both premises?
100
Synecdoche
What is a figure of speech that utilizes a part as a representative whole.
expl. "All hands on deck!"
200
Tone
What is the authors attitude towards his subject
200
Cacophony
What is harsh and discordant sounds in a line or passage in a literary work.
200
Periodic Sentence
What presents its main clause at the end of the sentence for emphasis and sentence variety. Phrases and/or dependent clauses precede the main clause?
200
Oversimplification
What supplies neat and easy explanations for large and complicated phenomena.
200
Hyperbole
What is extreme exaggeration, often humorous, it can also be ironic: the opposite of understatement.
300
Diction
What is the authors choice of words that creates tone, attitude, and style, as well as meaning.
300
Euphony
What is the pleasant, mellifluous presentation or sounds in a literary work?
300
Ellipses
What is "..."
(Come on guys...)
300
Hasty Generalization
What leaps to a generalization from inadequate or faulty evidence. The most common _________ is the stereotype:
"Men aren't sensitive enough to be day-care providers.
Women are too emotional to fight in combat"
300
Metonomy
What is a figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea
expl. "the pen is mightier than the sword"
400
Connective Tissue
What is those elements that help create coherence in a written piece.
400
Denotation
What is the literal or dictionary meaning of a word?
400
Rhetorical Question
What does not expect an explicit answer. It is used to pose an idea to be considered by the speaker or audience?
400
Argument de hominem
(from the Latin, "to the man")
What attacks a person;s views by attacking his or her character?
400
Antithesis
What is the presentation of two contrasting images. The ideas are balanced by word,phrase, clause, or paragraph.
"To be or not to be..."
500
Syntax
What is the grammatical structure of prose and poetry
500
Connotation
What is the interpretive level of a word based on its associated images rather than its literal meaning?
500
Sarcasm
What is a comic technique that ridicules through caustic language.
500
Begging the question
What takes for granted from the start what you set out to demonstrate. When you reason in a "logical" way, you state that because something is true, then, as a result, some other truth follows.
500
Pun
What is a play of words that often has a comic effect.