organizational device in literature to present an action that occurred before the present time in the story
flashback
100
Everyone in Lemmingtown is behind Jim Duffie for
Mayor. Shouldn't you be part of this winning team?
Bandwagon
100
The mentioning of mockingbirds repeatedly throughout To Kill a Mockingbird as harmles, beautiful creatures
motif
100
tries to persuade the reader/viewer through their feelings on a subject
Emotional Appeal
100
Brutus' speech in which he discuss whether he will join the conspiracy, and he refers to Caesar as a serpent's egg
soliloquy
200
an exaggeration or overstatement
hyperbole
200
After a morning speech to wealthy Democratic
donors, Bill Clinton stops by McDonald's for a burger, fries, and photo-op.
Plain Folks
200
"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
metaphor
200
makes an oversimplified statement about a group based on limited information
Sweeping generalization/stereotyping
200
The reader knows that the "beast" is the parachutist - the boys (except Simon) don not
dramatic irony
300
an author's choice of words, phrases, or sentence structure
diction
300
The Citizens for Retired Rights present a magazine
ad showing an elderly couple living in poverty because their social security benefits have been drastically cut by the Republicans in Congress.
...so The CRR urges you to vote for Democrats.
Fear
300
Dede worried about her sisters driving too often and all together
foreshadowing
300
an appealing phrase so closely associated with highly valued concepts and beliefs that it carries conviction without supporting information or reason.
glittering generalities
300
from Huck Finn - Huck’s vernacular is filled with colloquialisms and altered words—"that ain’t no matter," "it warn’t no time to be sentimentering," etc.
dialect
400
one or more letters occuring as a bound form attached to the beginning or the end of a base word
affix
400
A Bounty paper towel commercial, mentions Brawny is cheap and absorbs half the amount a Bounty roll does.
Name-calling
400
Antony speaking to the crowd, "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears..."
monologue
400
attempts to persuade the reader/viewer with facts and statistics
Logical Appeal
400
Cassius referring to Caesar as the Colossus of Rhodes
allusion
500
narrative device used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary information for the story
exposition
500
Adam Levine for Proactiv
Testimonial
500
piggy dies
situational irony
500
an attempt to distract the reader with details not relevant to the argument.