Syntax(answers will be definitions)
What is alliteration
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely related words.
The means of persuasion that appeals to the audience's emotions.
Pathos
A hyperbole is
exaggerated statements or claims that are not meant to be taken seriously.
What is antithesis
figure of balance in which two contrasting ideas are intentionally juxtaposed.
The omission of words in a phrase or sentence via the use of the periods.
Ellipsis.
What is asyndeton
the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence.
Literary techniques in which conjunctions are used repeatedly in quick succession, often with no commas, even when conjunctions should be removed.
Polysyndeton
vivid descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the senses.
Imagery
What is diction
The choice and use of words in speech or writing
The emotional implications and associations a word may carry; the implied or suggested meaning of a word.
Connotation
What is ethos
a pursuasive appeal based on the credibility or character of the speaker or narrator.
a figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole, the whole for a part, the specific for the general, or the material for the thing made from it.
Synecdoche
What is irony
The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning.
a shift in narrative to an earlier event that interrupts the normal chronological development of a story.
The specialized language of a professional, occupational, or other group, often meaningless to outsiders.
Jargon
What is juxtaposition
Placing dissimilar items, descriptions, or ideas close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
The repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences.
Epistrophe
The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
Onomatopoeia
What is prose
Ordinary writing both fiction and non-fiction as distinguished from verse
a word employed in two senses, or a word used in a context that suggests a second term sounding like it.
Pun
What is euphemism
The substitution of of an inoffensive term for an explicit word.
The identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.
Assonance
What is a paradox
A statement that appears to contradict itself but actually contains a degree of truth.
What is an understatement
a figure of speech in which a writer deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is.
Reasoning or arguing from parallel cases.