Repetition of the same letter at the beginning of three or more words
What is Alliteration?
100
Heatwaves are not rare in the summer.
What is Litotes?
100
The believeability of a situation's outcome.
What is Verisimilitude?
100
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.
What is Chiasmus?
100
I need 350 mg of ADP, STAT!
What is Jargon?
200
Brief reference to a work of literature, mythological, or history.
What is Allusion?
200
You can't fight city hall.
What is Metonymy?
200
When words that naturally belong together are separated for emphasis or effect.
What is Hyperbaton?
200
They spent the day wondering, searching, and hoping.
What is Parallelism?
200
Waitress: "What would you like to drink?"
Customer: "I'll just take a Coke."
Waitress: "What type of Coke?"
Customer: "Oh, Pepsi will be fine."
What is Colloquialism?
300
Comparison of two things to show a similar relationship.
What is Analogy?
300
If I do not wake up, then I can’t go to work. If I cannot go to work, then I will not get paid.Therefore, if I do not wake up, then I will not get paid.
What is Syllogism?
300
When a speaker poses a question and then directly answers it.
What is Hypophora?
300
“Republicans understand the bondage between mother and child.” - Former Vice President Dan Quayle
What is Malopropism?
300
"Hello darkness, my old friend. I've come to talk with you again . . .." (Paul Simon, "The Sounds of Silence")
What is Apostrophe?
400
Repetition of sounds or a word in a piece of writing for emphasis or imagery.
What is Anaphora?
400
The plucking of the jazz bass infused the air with the mellow, blue tones of Dizzy Gillespie.
What is Synesthesia?
400
Repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences.
What is Epistrophe?
400
"The big man" upstairs hears your prayers.
What is Euphemism?
400
"Listen, young men, to an old man to whom old men were glad to listen when he was young." - Augustus
What is Antithesis?
500
Positioning two opposing ideas within a syntactical structure.
What is Antithesis?
500
Alexander conquered the world; I AP Language.
What is Asyndeton?
500
Turning a negative situation into a positive situation.
What is Antanagoge?
500
[He] pursues his way, / And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. -- Poet John Milton
What is Polysyndeton?
500
"The fires of hell emit no light, but darkness visible." - Paradise Lost, John Milton