“This is the villain among you who deceived you, who cheated you, who meant to betray you completely…”
What is asyndeton?
100
Wat it do?
What is colloquialism?
100
a persuasive appeal to the audience based on emotion
What is pathos?
100
“My life is my purpose. My life is my goal. My life is my inspiration.”
What is anaphora?
200
"Why should white people be tunning all the stores in our community? Why should white people be running the banks of our community? Why should the economy of our community be in the hands of the white man? Why?"
What is Anaphora
200
Investing abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities
What is personification?
200
Howdy Y'all!
What is colloquialism?
200
The hair was very thin not knotty at all.
What is alliteration?
200
Figures of speech that involve a transference of meaning
What are tropes?
300
Use of words whose sound echoes the sense
What is onomatopoeia
300
a persuasive appeal to the audience based on the credibility, good character, etc of the writer
What is ethos?
300
"The night comes crawling in on all fours."
What is personification?
300
“Well now, one winter it was so cold that all the geese flew backward and all the fish moved south and even the snow turned blue. Late at night, it got so frigid that all spoken words froze solid afore they could be heard. People had to wait until sunup to find out what folks were talking about the night before.”
What is hyperbole?
300
It was a dark and wet and cold and frightful night.
What is polysendeton?
400
Who do you think you are?
What is a rhetorical question?
400
"By Spring, if God was good, all the proud privileges of trench lice, mustard gas, spattered brains, punctured lungs, ripped guts, asphyxiation, mud and gangrene might be his."
What is verbal irony?
400
"It rained for four years, eleven months, and two days."
What is hyperbole?
400
Figures of speech that involve a transference of order
What are schemes?
400
I would really appreciate it if you would help me with my homework since you are so smart.
What is pathos?
500
You have spilled a gallon of rice milk and you say "Well isn't that just wonderful."
What is verbal irony?
500
To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented.
What is an inference?
500
"The night is bleeding like a cut"
What is simile?
500
One of the major divisions of genre. Refers to fiction and nonfiction writing
What is prose?
500
A persuasive appeal to the audience based on logic and reason