Imagery
The imagery that focuses on how nouns and verbs look.
What is visual imagery?
The term that generally describes 'word choice' in writing.
What is diction?
A comparison that uses 'like' or 'as'.
What is a simile?
A form of question that addresses a listener but is not supposed to receive a literal response.
What is a rhetorical question?
What is 'what is'?
The imagery used to describe the sound of a dog's bark.
What is aural/auditory imagery?
Any more sophisticated synonym for sad.
What is morose/devastated/sorrowful/depressed/downcast/lugubrious, etc. ?
A comparison that asserts that an object is another object.
What is a metaphor?
The logical appeal that uses statistics and mathematical figures.
What is logos?
The technique that describes sounds with the way they sound (bang, pop, screech).
What is onomatopoeia?
The five base flavours used to describe gustatory imagery.
(Name at least 4)
What is 'bitter, salty, sour, sweet, umami?'
The range of words available to a person. May be improved by reading and study.
What is vocabulary?
The technique where something is exaggerated for an effect.
What is hyperbole?
The four traditional logical appeals (think Greek).
What is ethos, pathos, logos, kairos?
The logical introduction and repetition of core terms in a passage which carry on with each paragraph.
What is a lexical chain?
The form of imagery used when describing pain, resistance, temperature and texture.
What is tactile imagery?
The term to describe the intensity, surety and authority in word choices.
What is modality?
The other figurative technique (other than a simile) shown in the following:
"Finding my friend in the busy crowd was like finding a needle in a haystack."
What is an analogy?
The logical appeals used in the following phrase:
"I feel so ashamed to be your daughter."
What is ethos and pathos?
The category of noun for the following words:
"Love, freedom, avarice, terror"
What are abstract nouns?
The form of sensory imagery which heavily relies on comparison, description of intensity and is most related to memory?
What is olfactory imagery?
The literary term for an 'opposite' word. e.g cold and hot
The visual form of hyperbole (often used to ridicule celebrities and politicians).
What is caricature?
The technique where a question is posed and immediately answered by the speaker.
e.g How are we going to save the world? By eating the rich!
What is hypophora?
The form of imagery that describes the movement of the body and its awareness of danger.
What is kinaesthetic imagery?
The correct order for adjectives
(identify at least three in order)
What is 'opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose'?
The two forms of adverbials.
What are conjuncts and disjuncts?
How is a gnome like a security guard?
The qualities most associated with ethos.
What is authority/credibility/expertise?
The literary technique where a text refers to another text.
e.g A character in the movie refers to Batman.
What is allusion?