Opposites
This word contrasts ideas, like in this quote from Neil Armstrong: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
What is ANTITHESIS
"We will do it, I tell you; we will do it." This quote has two areas of repetition with one clause that interrupts.
What is a DIACOPE
This is used to describe the language in a text that isn't intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid.
What is FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Instead of saying, "corpse" one might say "earthly remains," substituting a more agreeable substitute for an unpleasant word.
What is EUPHEMISM?
It follows a criss-cross pattern, as in this quote from Robert Frost, "The land was ours before we were the land's."
What is CHIASMUS
“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” This quote repeats at the openings of each of the clauses.
This is a device used to produce figurative language, such as personification, simile, and metaphor.
What is FIGURE OF SPEECH
Lectures with moral or spiritual advice that sound like a "sermon," might be referred to as this.
What is HOMILY
This grammatical unit is not like a phrase, which has only a subject or a verb; instead, this grammatical unit has both a subject and a verb.
What is a CLAUSE
This is the word that a pronoun might refer back to in a sentence.
What is ANTECEDENT
This figure of speech is used as symbolic representation of an abstraction in addition to its literal meaning. like in The Wizard of Oz.
What is ALLEGORY
This word is related to a speaker's style, especially with regard to the correctness, clearness, or effectiveness of the speaker's words.
What is DICTION
Not denotation, which is the strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, but this.
What is connotation
Lucy lost her licorice at the Lobster Diner in Lincoln.
What is ALLITERATION
If a speaker's language or diction is particularly aiming to teach or instruct someone, it is referred to as this.
What is DIDACTIC
This rhetorical term contrasts two different things but also can compare them. It shows some kind of relationship between them, such as this quote from Samuel Johnson, "He that voluntarily continues ignorance is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces, as to him that should extinguish the tapers of a lighthouse might justly be imputed the calamities of shipwrecks."
What is ANALOGY
"Who's gonna turn down a Junior Mint? It's chocolate; it's peppermint; it's delicious...It's very refreshing!" -Kramer (Seinfeld)
What is ENUMERATION