A rhetorical device in which the last word or words of a line, phrase or clause are repeated as the first word or words in an immediately successive line, phrase, or clause.
What is anadiplosis
100
Language that departs from literal meaning
What is figurative language
100
A figure of speech involving an elaborate and often surprising comparison between two apparently dissimilar things, often in the form of an extended metaphor.
What is conceit
100
A rhetorical strategy that attempts to persuade using appeals to logic.
What is logos
100
A rhetorical strategy that attempts to persuade using appeals to emotion.
What is pathos
200
A figure of speech in which human characteristics are bestowed upon anything nonhuman, from abstract idea to a physical force to an inanimate object to a living organism.
What is personification
200
A rhetorical device involving the exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines or sentences.
What is anaphora
200
A figure of speech that assosciates two distinct things without using a connective word (such as LIKE or AS) to link them together.
What is a metaphor
200
A rhetorical device in which certain word are reversed or repeated in a reverse order.
What is chiasmus
200
A rhetorical strategy that attempts to persuade using appeals to character.
What is ethos
300
The art of persuasion through speaking and writing.
What is rhetoric
300
A question used to evoke a response or thought but not intended to be actually answered.
What is a rhetorical question
300
A rhetorical device in which the speaker directly and often emotionally addresses a person who is dead or absent, and imaginary or nonhuman entity, or a place or concept.
What is apostrophe
300
A figure of speech that associates two distinct things using the connective words LIKE or AS.
What is a simile
400
A figure of speech in which one things is represented by another that is commonly and often physically associated with it.
What is a metonymy
400
A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole.
What is synechdoche.
400
A figure of speech in which one kind of sensory stimulus is used to describe the experience of another.
What is synesthesia
400
The #1 aid for Mrs. Dellinger
Who is SONIA :)
400
A figure of speech that uses an inoffensive expression in place of a blunt one that is felt to be disagreeable or embarrassing.
What is euphemism
500
A figure of speech in which the same word is applied to two others in different senses.
What is zeugma
500
a figure of speech employing deliberate, emphatic exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole
500
A rhetorical device involving the exact repetition of words or phrases at the end of successive lines or sentences.
What is epistrophe
500
A figure of speech deliberately representing something as very much less in magnitude or importance than it really is.
What is understatement
500
What is Mrs. Dellinger's favorite candy?
What is (dark) chocolate covered caramel. Milk Duds work.