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100
This is the sequential repition of a similar initial sound, usually applied to sonsonants, usually in closely proximate stressed syllables. "She sells seas shells by the sea shore."
What is an alliteration?
100
Associated with a dry, pompous presentation, regardless of its innate value to the reader.
What is didactic?
100
This is the contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant.
What is irony?
100
This is the feeling or ambience resulting from the tone of a piece as well as the author's attitude?
What is mood?
100
This is the attitude the writer takes toward a subject and theme.
What is tone?
200
This is the manner in which a writer combines and arranges words, shapes, and utilizes syntax and structure.
What is style?
200
This is a literary work that holds up human failings to ridicule and sensure.
What is a satire?
200

This is a term identifying the diction of the common, ordinary folks, especially in a specific region or area.

What is colloquial?

200
A literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference.
What is allusion?
200
The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balances or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas. For example, "To err is human, to sin is divine."
What is antithesis?
300
This is a narrative in which the characters, behavior, and even the setting demonstrate multiple levels of meanins and signigicance.
What is allegory?
300
This is a comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of literatre, in particular an extended metaphor within a poem.
What is conceit?
300
The repetition of two or more consonants with a change in the intervening vowels, such as pitter-patter, splish-splash.
What is consonance?
300
This is a syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series, usually producing more rapid prose.
What is asyndeton?
300
This is a type or class of literature, such as epic, narrative, poetry, etc..
What is genre?
400
This is when an earlier even is inserted into the normal chronology of the narration.
What is flashback?
400

This is the appeal to authority or credibility.

What is ethos?

400
This is the appeal to pity and emotions.
What is pathos?
400
This is the appeal to logic and reason.
What is logos?
400
This is a mode of discourse that tells a story of some sort and it is based on sequence of connected events, usually presented in a straightforward, chronological framework.
What is narrative?
500

This is a sermon, but more contemporary uses include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual life.

What is homily?

500
This is a long sentence tha starts with its main clause, which is followed b several dependent clauses and modifing phrases; for example, "The child ran, frenzied and ignoring all hazards, as if being chased by demons."
What is a loose sentence?
500
This is a parallel structure in which the parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure, but also in length. For example, "Many are called, but few are chosen."
What is isocolon?
500
This is a grammatically correct construction in which a word, usually a verb or adjective, is applied to two or more nouns without being repeated. Example "The thief took my wallet and the Fifth Ave. Bus."
What is zeugma?
500
The reperirion of a phrase at the end of successive sentences. For example: "If women are healthy and edcucated, their families will flourish. If women are free from violence, , their families will flourish. If women have a chance to work... their familes will flourish." (Hillary CLinton)
What is epistrophe?
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