a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
What is a metaphor?
100
reference to or echo of familiar expressions, persons or objects from a cultural tradition
What is an allusion?
100
the girls were dancing and some of them weren't wearing clothes.
What were Abigail and the girls doing in the forest?
100
to begin with a generalization or premise & proceeding to examples & supporting facts
What does it mean to argue deductively?
200
an action.
What is a verb
200
figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
What is a similie?
200
Repetition of one or more words at the head of consecutive phrases, clauses, or sentences
What is anaphora?
200
she thinks that the girls are faking witchcraft to get attention.
What does Rebecca nurse think is wrong with the girls?
200
appeals that rely on reason and facts to support a claim.
What are logical appeals?
300
a word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.
What is a adjective
300
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is a hyperbole?
300
A statement or situation can be ironic or paradoxical when the words accurately report events that seem to be contradictory but which have actually occurred
What is irony?
300
Abigail is jealous of her and despises her.
how does Abigail feel about proctors wife?
300
appeals that present ideas that elicit strong feelings.
What are emotional appeals?
400
a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word-group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree
What is a adverb
400
attributing animation to something inanimate ("a grieving nation"); treating a thing or abstract quality as though it were a person.
What is personification?
400
Idioms are inherited quirks of language that native speakers understand without question but which cause nonnative speakers endless trouble
What is an idiom?
400
Adultery.
Which commandment does John forget?
400
a question that doesn't require a reply because the answer is obviously obvious.
What is a rhetorical question?
500
a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause
What is a preposition
500
the concordance of sounds and meaning. "Snap, crackle, pop."
What is onomatopoeia?
500
A motif is a symbol that is carried through an entire work of fiction
What is a motif?
500
He wants more land and power.
Why is Thomas Putnam so bitter?
500
the use of the same word or phrase more than once for emphasis.