Intended or inclined to teach, preach, or instruct, often excessively.
What is Didactic
100
It refers to the language a writer uses to convey a visual picture or the use of speech (simile, personification … etc.) to express abstract ideas in a vivid imaginative way
What is Imagery
100
Hints given by the author about future events.
What is Foreshadowing
100
A speakers word choice, divided into two sections: vocabulary and syntax. Vocabulary pertains to the degree of difficulty.
What is Diction
100
A comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation, a correspondence or partial similarity.
What is Analogy
200
Figure of speech that uses deliberate exaggeration to achieve an effect, whether serious, comic, or ironic
What is Hyperbole
200
A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
What is Allegory
200
It's figuratively used to describe the insight or revelation gained with one suddenly understands the essence of a common place event.
What is Epiphany
200
In or into the middle of a narrative or plot.
What is In Media Res
200
a rhythmic unit into which a line of metrical verse is divided; each foot is a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is Foot (a poetic foot)
300
an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary.
What is Litotes
300
a rhetorical device involving the repetition of a word or group of words in successive clauses.
What is Anaphora
300
a figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means or of saying what one means with less force than the occasion warrants.
What is Meiosis
300
humorous plays on words that have several meanings for words that sound the same bu have different meanings.
What is Pun
300
repeated syntactical similarities introduced for rhetorical effect.
What is Parallelism
400
figure of speech in which one thing is represented by another that is commonly and often physically associated with it.
What is Metonymy
400
set off within or as if within parentheses; qualifying or explanatory.
What is Parenthetical Interruption
400
grammatical structure in which some word or phrase governs two or more different words.
What is Zeugma
400
The imitative use of words, style, attitude, tone, and ideas of an author in such a way as to make them ridiculous.
What is Parody
400
a rhetorical device in which certain words, sounds, concept or syntactic structures are reversed or repeated in reverse order.
What is Chiasmus
500
a term applied in literature to the description of one kind of sensation in terms of another.
What is Synaesthesia
500
rhetorical device involving the deliberate use of many conjunctions between single words or phrases.
What is Polysyndeton
500
the sense that what one reads is “real,” or at least realistic and believable.
What is Versimilitude
500
a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable
What is Iambic Pentameter
500
an appeal to pity or an argument of authority based on appeal to the emotions.