Rhetoric
The person or group who creates a text.
What is Speaker?
The sentence structure within a piece of literature, including sentence length and patterns.
What is syntax?
The first "S" in SPACECAT.
What is speaker?
The casual reference to a historical or literary figure, event, or object.
What is an allusion?
The indirect relationship where one thing or idea is described as being similar to another, with using the words "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
The time and place the text was written or spoken.
What is Occasion?
This type of sentence is... "The kind is sick."
What is a declarative sentence?
Who the speaker/writer is trying to reach.
What is audience?
What is a foil?
When the future events in a story, or perhaps the outcome, are suggested by the author before they happen.
What is foreshadowing?
The three elements in the rhetorical triangle.
What is speaker, audience, and subject?
Two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction or by a semi-colon.
What is a compound sentence?
What is tone?
The repetition of initial consonant sounds or any vowel sounds within a formal grouping, such as a poetic line or stanza, or in close proximity in prose.
What is alliteration?
The repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences, commonly in conjunction with climax and with parallelism.
What is anaphora?
What is ethos, logos, and pathos?
Refers to a grammatical or structural similarity between sentences or parts of a sentence.
What is parallel structure?
The second "A" in SPACECAT.
What is appeals?
What is connotation?
A brief quotation, saying, or poem placed at the beginning of a text to suggest its theme, set a tone, or provide context for the main work.
What is an epigraph?
What is persona?
A sentence that involves constructing a sentence so the subject comes before the predicate.
What is natural order?
The spark or catalyst that moved the speaker/writer to act/write.
What is exigence?
The act of placing two items side by side to create a certain effect, reveal an attitude, or accomplish some other purpose.
What is juxtaposition?
The use of a conjunction between each word, phrase, or clause, and is thus structurally the opposite of asyndeton.
What is a polysyndeton?