Figures of Speech
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect; an extravagant statement.
Whatis hyperbole?
Intended or inclined to teach or instruct, often excessively
What is didactic?
Using words in a tersely phrased statement of a truth or opinion
What is an aphorism?
The emotion evoked by a text is tone. This sets what?
What is mood?
A statement that appears to contradict itself.
What is a paradox?
The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning
What is irony?
The perspective from which a speaker or writer tells a story or presents information.
What is point of view?
A mocking, often ironic or satirical remark.
What is sarcasm?
A rhetorical strategy that recounts a sequence of events, usually in chronological order.
What is narrative or narration?
The presence of two or more possible meanings in any passage
What is ambiguity?
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities.
What is personification?
The exact or intense moment or event that motivates someone to write or to speak about a specific issue, problem, or situation.
What is exigence?
A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule
What is a parody?
The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to
What is an Onomatopoeia?
The specialized language of a professional, occupational, or other group, often meaningless to outsiders.
What is jargon?
A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as “crown” for “royalty”)
What is mytonymy?
Placing dissimilar items, descriptions, or ideas close together or side-by-side, especially for comparison or contrast
What is juxtaposition?
Denunciatory or abusive language; discourse that casts blame on somebody or something
What is a invective ?
A word employed in two senses, or a word used in a context that suggests a second term sounding like it. Puns are usually used for comic effect.
What is a pun?
A fallacy in which a speaker or writer seeks to persuade not by giving evidence but by appealing to the respect people have for a famous person or institution
What is an appeal to authority?
A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole, the whole for a part, the specific for the general, the general for the specific, or the material for the thing made from it.
What is synecdoche?
The main idea of an essay or report, often written as a single declarative sentence.
What is thesis?
A text or performance that uses irony, derision, or wit to expose or attack human vice, foolishness, or stupidity.
What is satire?
The similarity of structure in a pair or series of sentences or paragraphs.
What is parallelism?
A shift in a narrative to an earlier event that interrupts the normal chronological development of a story.
What is a flashback?