The use of a sound, word, phrase, or clause to emphasize meaning or effect
What is Repetition
100
The implied meaning of something. NOT the dictionary definition.
What is Connotation
200
any artful variation from the typical arrangement of words in a sentence
What is Scheme
200
Referring to emotion that speaker causes audience to feel
What is Pathos
200
well-supported representation of how a writer see's an issue, problem, or subject
What is an Argument
200
An Overstatement or an exaggeration
What is Hyperbole
200
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people/politics/ current events
What is Satire
300
Deliberate playing down of a situation
What is understatement
300
Referring to credibility/character of speaker
What is Ethos
300
The art of analyzing all the choices involving language of that of a writer, speaker, reader, or listener might make in a situation so that the text becomes meaningful, purposeful, and effective
What is Rhetoric
300
repetition of the same group of words at the beginning of successive clauses
What is Anaphora
300
Two things being next to or close together with contrasting effect
What is Juxtaposition
400
An Understatement.
What is Litotes
400
Person that uses the appeals to affect the audience
What is the Speaker
400
Writer/Speaker's attitude toward the subject matter
What is Tone
400
An implied comparison that does NOT use the word like or as
What is Metaphor
400
Indirect expression of unpleasant information in such a way as to lessen its impact
What is Euphemism
500
Words that have apparently contradictory meanings are placed near each other.
What is Oxymoron
500
People/ person that the speaker uses appeals on
What is the audience
500
Person or persons who listen to a spoken text or read a written on and are capable of responding to it
What is an Audience
500
Variation of expected modes of expression of thoughts and ideas
What is Trope
500
A part of piece of something used to refer to the whole