Spelling
Spell the term that means "harsh or grating sounds that do not go together"
Dissonance
denotation
word choice, an element of style; it creates tone, attitude, and style, as well as meaning.
Diction
A commercial for an animal shelter showing sad, abandoned animals to encourage donations or adoptions.
Emotional Appeal - Pathos
A politician running for office might emphasize their history of public service, community involvement, and strong family values to persuade voters that they are a trustworthy leader.
Ethical Appeal - Ethos
Spell the term that means "repetition of identical consonant sounds within two or more words in close proximity."
Consonance
The picturing in words of something or someone through detailed observation of color, motion, sounds, taste, smell, and touch; one of the four modes of discourse.
Description
The implied or suggested meaning of a word because of its association in the reader's mind.
Connotation
"The scientific principles we've discussed today are not merely theoretical. They are the foundation upon which all our modern technologies are built. You will need to memorize these equations, as understanding them is the first step to applying them."
Didactic
In the novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy, he uses William Faulkner's quote, "The things you own end up owning you" to begin his story.
Epigraph
Spell the term that means "repetition of a word or expression at the end of successive clauses, phrases, or sentences, or verses for rhetorical or poetic effect."
Epistrophe
The process of moving from a general rule to a specific example.
Deduction
Discourse
"When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child."
Epistrophe
What term is known as "the immediate revelation to the audience of setting, and other background information necessary for understanding plot"
Exposition
Spell the term that means "a riddle whose answer is or involves a pun, paradox, or difficult problem."
Conundrum
Euphony
An individual instance taken to be representative of a general pattern.
Example
The military uses the term "collateral damage" to indicate civilian deaths in a military operation.
Euphemism
"What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?" The answer is a person.
Conundrum
Spell the term that means "a more acceptable and usually more pleasant way of saying something that might be inappropriate or uncomfortable."
Euphemism
Dramatic Irony
The art of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text.
Explication
words like "ping-pong" and "fulfill"
Consonance
Oedipus is searching for the murderer of the former king to lift a curse, unaware that he himself is the murderer.
Dramatic Irony