What is the repetition of the same word/words at the beginning of phrases/clauses/sentences?
100
Omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses.
What is Asyndenton?
100
Ethos
What is an appeal to credibility?
100
Giving animal/inanimate objects human attributes.
What is personification?
100
Words like somber, playful, or sarcastic.
What is tone?
200
Colloquialism
What is the use of slang or informalities in speech or writing?
200
More agreeable substitutes for unpleasant words or concepts.
What is a euphemism?
200
Cliché.
What is a trite or overused expression?
200
Exaggerated conditions for emphasis or effect.
What is hyperbole?
200
"How am I supposed to get home now? Clicking my heels or something?"
What is an allusion?
300
Parallel Syntax
What is using the same sentence/phrase structure for structural similarity?
300
A statement that appears to contradict itself.
What is a paradox?
300
Metonym
What is substitution of a name for one closely associated with it?
300
Establishes a clear, contrasting relationship between ideas by juxtaposing them in parallel structure.
What is antithesis?
300
Reason is subdued, honesty is subdued, good will is subdued, and all things else that withstand evil, for ever are subdued. - Wilson (SPECIFIC)
What is epistrophe?
400
Irony
What is using words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning?
400
A noun or noun substitute placed near another noun is described or defined by this.
What is an appositive?
400
Antecedent
What is the word/phrase/clause referred to by a pronoun?
400
A type of rhetorical question whose purpose is to rebuke or reproach.
What is an epiplexis?
400
What is learned unwillingly is gladly forgotten.
What is chiasmus?
500
Epanalepsis
What is repeating the beginning word of a clause or sentence at the end?
500
Substituting a part of something to name the whole.
What is synecdoche?
500
Apostrophe
What is animating and directly an absent/imaginary person or personified abstraction?
500
A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.
What is a litote?
500
It has been said that the phrase “cellar door” is reportedly the most pleasant sounding phrase in the English language. The phrase is said to depict the highest degree of _______, and is said to be especially notable when spoken in the British accent.