The listeners or spectators at a speech or performance, or the intended readership for a piece of writing.
What is an audience?
100
Every boy talked about in every one of Taylor Swift's songs
What is an antagonist?
100
Writing towards a specific ______ is used in order to make sure readers can relate and understand the work.
What is an audience?
200
A person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another.
What is an antagonist?
200
"Call up her father.
Rouse him. Make after him, Poison his delight,
Proclaim him in the streets. Incense her kinsmen,
And, though he in a fertile climate dwell,"
What is asyndeton in Shakespeare's Othello?
200
To make a statement more believable and/or seem legitmate
What is appeal to authority?
300
The reference to words, action, or beliefs of a person in authority as a means of supporting a claim, generalization, or conclusion.
What is appeal to authority?
300
"If there be cords, or knives,
Poison, or fire, or suffocating streams,
I'll not endure it."
What is polysyndeton in Shakespeare's Othello?
300
Primarily used in poetry in order to add rhythm and music, by adding an internal rhyme to a poem
What is assonance?
400
An arrangement of words addressing a non-existent person or an abstract idea in such a way as if it were present and capable of understanding feelings.
What is an apostrophe?
400
"So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.”
What is assonance in Carl Sandburg’s Early Moon
400
Brings continuity and rhythm to the text and puts emphasis on the ideas that the conjunctions connect.
What is polysyndeton?
500
A concise statement that is made in a matter of fact tone to state a principle or an opinion that is generally understood to be a universal truth.
What is an aphorism?
500
"Keep your head above water."
What is an aphorism?
500
To bring abstract ideas or non-existent persons to life so that the message can be conveyed better and easier