RD #1
Words which are inaccurate if interpenetrated literally, but are used to describe. Similes and Metaphors are common forms.
What is Figurative Language?
This type of noting while reading involves a graphic organizer, using annotation or a dialectic journal to organize your thoughts. The student may also be outlining and evaluating the text using this method.
What is a closed reading or explication?
The four modes of discourse are...
What are exposition, description, narration, and argumentation?
This rhetorical device involves the substitution of a name with another closely associated to it.
What is metonymy?
An example of this device is ... "hope is the thing with feathers that purchase in the soul, and sings the tune--without the words, and never stops at all."
What is an extended metaphor?
This rhetorical device involves two unlike things being compared using like or as.
What is a simile?
A question asked for an effect, and not actually requiring an answer.
What is a rhetorical question?
A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or rhetorical.
What is satire?
This rhetorical device involves the direct usage of conjunctions.
What is polysyndeton?
A type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses.
What is a loose sentence?
The three main types of appeals?
What is Ethos, Pathos, and Logos?
This rhetorical device involves a direct omission of conjunctions often produce a rapid tempo.
What is asyndeton?
This rhetorical device is a sub type of parallelism. It is defined as the exact repetition of words at the beginning of phrases.
What is anaphora?
This rhetorical device involves the second part of a sentence meaning the exact opposite than the first part.
What is antithesis?
This rhetorical device involves the deliberate exaggeration of a situation.
What is hyperbole?
This rhetorical device involves a direct or indirect reference to something which is commonly known.
What is an allusion?
A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity.
What is paradox?
Think and wonder. Wonder and think.
What is Antimetobole?
This device refers to the way an author chooses to join word into phrases and sentences.
What is syntax?
A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa.
What is synecdoche?
Go and hunt her and find her and kill her.
Polysyndeton.
I can get lost in virtual reality for hours.
What is oxymoron?