Rhythm Language
Concrete vs Abstract
Figures of Speech
100

This rhythm tool is often used in short and catchy phrases such as "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" and "Live, Laugh, Love" 

Asyndeton

100

Which type of language is used, Abstract or Concrete?

Everyone loved Jonah's idea to redesign the roller-coaster

Abstract

100

The title of Petra's 1987 song "He Came, He Saw, He Conquered" uses this figure of speech as it relates to Caesar's famous line "I Came, I Saw, I Conquered."  

Allusion

200

Songs often use this rhythm tool with words that don't perfectly rhyme, but sound similar.

Assonance

200

Which type of language is used, Abstract or Concrete?

Ryan and Sylvia went to the bowling alley last Saturday.

Concrete

200

Which figure of speech is used in this statement?

The drought traveled across the land, stepping on everything in its way

Personification

300

Yoda from Star Wars is known for talking backwards. This quote from Yoda, "The greatest teacher, failure is" is an example of what rhythm tool

Anastrophe

300

Which type of language is used, Abstract or Concrete?

Lucy and Margaret decided to go roller-skating after they visited Martha.

Concrete

300

What figure of speech is used in sentence?

It was a cold and rainy day, but the two friends went on a walk anyway. During the middle of the walk, one friend turned to the other and said, "What a beautiful day!"

Irony

400

Tongue twisters use three different rhyming tools, the most obvious being Alliteration. Name at least one of the other two rhyming tools used. 

Assonance and Repetition

400

Which type of language is used in each portion of this sentence?

Julia dreamed of the day when she'd be able to ride a horse.

Abstract and Concrete

400

Which figure of speech is used in this sentence?

It rained all night long and the river flooded. John woke up, saw the damage, and said, "I see we got a little rain last night."

Understatement

500

In Hamlet, Shakespeare uses what rhythm tool in this quote, "Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice" ?

Antithesis

500

Which type of language is used in each portion of this sentence?

Harvey went on a run and then he drove home. 

Concrete and Concrete

500

This 1590s love tragedy has been alluded to several times in other plays, books, songs, and many other pieces of literature and is one of the authors most famous works.

Romeo and Juliet

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