Help me. Who am I?
Reason with Me...
You Need Me, Just Say It.
Wild Card
common divices
100
I refer to something outside of the text like a book, myth, place, work of art, etc.
What is allusion? 
100
An argument directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining.
What is Ad Hominem?
100
MJ might move Monday morning.
What is an Alliteration?
100
The sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions.
What is imagery?
100
In spite of heavy snow and cold temperatures, the game continued. (What type of sentence is this?)
What is a periodic sentence? Remember that the main idea is at the end of a periodic sentence.
200
I exaggerate or overstate too much.
What is hyperbole?
200
Assuming that something is true before it is proved.
ex. If something wasn't illegal, then it would not be prohibited by the law.
What is Begging The Question?
200
To begin the replacement of a lightbulb, you must first unscrew the old bulb, then acquire a new bulb and screw that one in.
What is didactic?
200
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction.
What is apostrophe?
200
A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb.
What is a clause?
300
I like repeating the same words or phrases at the beginning of my sentences.
What is anaphora? 
300
Uncertainty of meaning in language to misrepresent the truth.
What is Ambiguity?
300
Beauty and ugliness. Black and White. Young and old.
What is juxtaposition?
300
The prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work
What is mood?
300
A rhetorical device related to style and refers to the writer’s word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness.
What is diction? (You should know this one!)
400
I am a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it.
What is metonymy? 
400
An emotional appeal to positive concepts or negative concepts rather than a direct discussion of the real issue.
What is Ad Populum?
400
His lectures were so exact that you needed a dictionary in one hand and a thesaurus in the other.
What is pedantic?
400
A form of understatement that that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite.
What is litotes?
400
You need to work quickly and decisively.
(What rhetorical device is present in this example?
Hint: Focus on quickly and decisively.)
What is parallelism? "Quickly" and "decisively" are used similarly and are also similar in their sound. Parallelism is the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter.
500
I am a rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect.
What is chiasmus?
500
Arguing that because one event happened before the second, the first event caused the second event.
What is Post hoc?
500
I believe in speaking and writing eloquently and persuasively.
What is rhetoric?
500
Although I like to go camping, I haven't had the time to go lately, and I haven't found anyone to go with. (What type of sentence is this?
What is a compound-complex sentence?
A compound-complex sentence is made from two independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
500
Tom Brady is a football star.
(What is "football star"? Hint: Break down the parts of a sentence and think of the subject.)
What is a subject complement? Specifically, "football star" is a predicate nominative. A predicate nominative is a noun, group of nouns, or noun clause that renames the subject. "Football star" renames the subject, Tom Brady.
