Nuts and Bolts
Genres
It Figures
Speaking Rhetorically
Smorgasbord
100
The choice of words an author makes and the structure of sentences, including length, word order, and punctuation. (Looking for two words.)
What are diction and syntax?
100
Antithetical views of society - one optimistic, the other bleak.
What are utopian and dystopian?
100
A direct comparison between two disparate things.
What is metaphor?
100
An appeal to reason.
What is logos?
100
An author might use the Garden of Eden, Prometheus, Proteus, or Job, among others.
What is allusion?
200
Literary terms for three kinds of character.
What are protagonist, antagonist and foil?
200
Characterized by strict adherence to 16th century Protestant precepts.
What is Puritanism?
200
Giving human attributes to non-human things.
What is personification or pathetic fallacy?
200
A statement that contains two ideas that are both true, but cannot both be true at the same time.
What is paradox?
200
The literal or primary meaning of a word.
What is denotation?
300
A construction that mirrors a pattern within a sentence or between sentences.
What is parallelism or parallel structure?
300
Two of its greatest adherents are Thoreau and Emerson.
What is Transcendentalism?
300
A word that sounds like what it is. Pow, snap and splash are examples.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
An emotional appeal usually evoking pity or sadness.
What is pathos?
300
The idea or feeling a word evokes.
What is connotation?
400
Two elements of a story affected by diction and syntax.
What are tone and character? (Other examples acceptable if adequately explained.)
400
The Scarlet Letter - a tale set in the distant past involving "extraordinary" events - is a good example.
What is romanticism?
400
A gross overstatement.
What is hyperbole?
400
An appeal to the ideals that characterize a community, nation, or ideology
What is ethos?
400
Three points of view that place you directly in the character's head.
What are first person, omniscient, and close third person? (Other examples acceptable if adequately explained.)
500
It comes in three forms: dramatic, situational and verbal.
What is irony?
500
Characterized by fractured narrative structure.
What is modernism?
500
Replacing the name of something or someone with one of its characteristics, eg. calling a businessman a "suit."
What is metonymy? (Hey, it's for 500!)
500
If A is like B, and B is like C, then A is like C.
What is a syllogism?
500
Jumbo shrimp and military intelligence are examples.
What is oxymoron?
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