A literary style used to make fun of or ridicule an idea or human vice or weakness
What is satire?
100
The sun danced across the sky
What is personification?
100
Pretty ugly, act naturally, awfully good
What are examples of oxymoron?
200
Logos, pathos, and ethos
What are the rhetorical appeals?
200
Describing a person as curvy rather than fat
What is a euphemism?
200
Humor, criticism, moral voice
What are the three things necessary to satire?
200
Used to provoke images in the mind of the reader through use of comparison
What are similies and metaphors?
200
A statement that seems contradictory, but is actually true
What is a paradox?
300
The three elements of Aristotle's rhetorical triangle
What are the author, speaker, and subject?
300
Novel, essay, tragedy, comedy
What are examples of genre?
300
The four techniques of satire
What are exageration, incongruity, reversal, and parody?
300
Imagery
What is a type of figurative language that appeals to the senses?
300
An author's choice of words to convey a tone or effect
What is diction?
400
Entertain, inform, shock, persuade, educate, call to action
What are examples of purpose for writing?
400
Flipping through his highschool yearbook, the businessman felt a longing to go back to those less stressful times
What is nostalgia?
400
Yelling, "move it ya stupid slow as molasses old grandpa!" when an elderly person is driving slowly infront of you
What is an example of invective?
400
Language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation
What is figurative language?
400
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine." -Casablanca
What is an example of anaphora?
500
Martin Luther King delivering his I Have a Dream speech in the nation's capital to the general public during the Civil Rights Movement to discuss equal rights for African Americans.
What is an example of context?
500
One method of reasoning goes from general to specific, while the other goes from specific to general
What is the difference between deductive and inductive reasoning?
500
Johnathon Swift suggesting that his modest proposal of eating babies will "prevent those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their own children, alas!"
What is an example of irony?
500
"All the world's a stage, and the men and women merely players." -William Shakespeare
What is an example of metaphor?
500
In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Boo Radley shows kindness to the children by secretly giving them gifts hidden in the tree, and later goes on to save their lives.