This, asked merely for effect with no answer expected, the answer may be obvious or immediately provided by the questioner.
What is a rhetorical question?
100
Examples of this include, The "I Have a Dream Speech" or the Declaration of Independence.
What is primary sources?
100
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman.
What is personification?
100
Once all gun owners have registered their firearms, the government will know exactly from whom to confiscate them; is an example of this.
What is slippery slope?
100
A person steps in big puddle of water by mistake, and his/her friend smiles kindly, starts to help his friend up and remarks, "well now, don't you have all the luck!"
What is verbal irony?
200
Sara’s seven sisters slept soundly in sand
What is alliteration?
200
We use this in order to avoid plagiarism in writing.
What are Citations?
200
I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me is an example of this.
What is a pun?
200
(Latin for "it does not follow"), in formal logic, is an argument in which its conclusion does not follow from its premises.
What is non sequitur?
200
Macbeth plans the murder of Duncan whilst feigning loyalty. Duncan does not know of Macbeth’s plans but the audience does.
What is dramatic irony?
300
A contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences.
Ex: "They promised freedom and provided slavery."
What is antithesis?
300
This, generally found in the first paragraph of a paper, introduces the main idea.
What is a thesis statement?
300
"Language is a road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going." is an example of this...
What is a metaphor?
300
A type of logical fallacy that involves a situation in which only two alternatives are considered, when in fact there are additional options
What is a false dilemma?
300
A scene in a movie where a man is about to shoot someone, however, when the noise of the gun being fired occurs, instead of the bullet hitting the victim, the shooter himself is shot by someone else.
What is Situational Irony?
400
In is to out as up is to down.
What is an analogy?
400
Textbooks, magazine articles, histories, criticisms, commentaries, and encyclopedias.
What are secondary sources?
400
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
400
Latin for "to the man" or "to the person", is an attempt to negate the truth of a claim by pointing out a negative characteristic or belief of the person supporting it.
What is personal attack or (ad hominem)?
400
"In There's Something About Mary (1998), [when] Ted thinks he's been arrested for picking up a hitchhiker while the audience knows he's being questioned by police about a murder, otherwise innocuous lines he delivers, such as 'I've done it several times before' and 'It's no big deal,' generate laughter."
What is dramatic irony?
500
I have a million things to do today.
What is hyperbole?
500
a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.
What is satire?
500
A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., raining cats and dogs).
What is an idiom?
500
A sham argument set up to be defeated.
What is "straw man"?
500
A scene where a man and woman are sitting at a bus stop and start to converse. The woman divulges some of her deepest darkest secrets. The man listens and advises her, and the woman thanks him and gets on her bus. After she is gone the man takes off his heavy coat to reveal that he is in fact wearing the garb of a priest.