What is this, a Rhetorical Devices Jeopardy or Something???
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An appeal to ethical principles.
What is ethos?
100
An appeal to pity or compassion.
What is pathos?
100
Two contrasting ideas are placed together for comparison.
What is juxtaposition?
100
[answer] occurs when a situation produces an outcome that is the opposite of what is expected.
What is irony?
100
A seemingly contradictory statement that reveals a truth.
What is a paradox?
200
False or forced emotion that is often humorous.
What is bathos?
200
John went to the store. He then went to school. John is the [answer] of he.
What is the antecedent?
200
The reiteration of a word or phrase for emphasis.
What is repetition?
200
The way words are arranged in a sentence.
What is syntax?
200
How the speaker of a literary work presents themselves to the reader.
What is voice?
300
To mock ideas, persons, events, or doctrines, or to make fun of human foibles or weaknesses.
What is satire?
300
A question asked for the sake of an argument.
What is a rhetorical question?
300
This rhetorical device involves a direct or indirect reference to something which is commonly known.
What is an allusion?
300
A form of deductive reasoning in which pieces of evidence are used to create a new conclusion.
What is a syllogism?
300
The way that elements of a work of prose or poetry are joined together.
What is texture?
400
The specific words, incidents, images, or events the author uses to create a scene or narrative.
What is selection of detail?
400
A work that expresses sorrow.
What is an elegy?
400
[answer] occurs when the conjunction that would normally connect a string of words are omitted from a sentence. Ex: I came, I saw, I conquered.
What is asyndeton
400
A word or phrase that follows a noun or pronoun for emphasis.
What is an appositive?
400
[answer] occurs when a character or thing is elevated to such a high status that it appears godlike.
What is an apotheosis?
500
This rhetorical device involves the substitution of a name with another closely associated to it.
What is metonymy?
500
The four modes of discourse are [answer]
What are exposition, description, narration, and argumentation?
500
[answer] involves an understatement in the negative.
What is litotes?
500
"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune--without the words, And never stops at all..." This is an example of a(n)
What is an extended metaphor?
500
A figure of speech in which an absent person or personified object is addressed by a speaker.