Purpose & Effect
Definition
Examples
Definitions 2.0
Examples 2.0
100
To make the audience think on a different level.
What is irony?
100
A comparison between two things that uses like or as.
What is Simile?
100
"That was very punny."
What is pun?
100
An understatement
What is litotes?
100
The genre of the book is scientific-fiction
What is genre?
200
To create a driving rhythm to intensify the emotion of what you are saying.
What is anaphora?
200
An informal use of language.
What is colloquialism?
200
"It's raining cats and dogs."
What is metaphor?
200
A reverse in the order of words.
What is chiasmus?
200
"Your dad died," "Your dad has gone to a better place."
What is euphemism?
300
It provided emphasis and arises emotion to show the importance of each thing.
What is polysyndeton?
300
The main point is at the end of the long sentence.
What is periodic table?
300
A guy on a television show argued against people helping the poor when his goal was to help the poor.
What is satire?
300
Indicates that you have left something out.
What is ellipses?
300
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
What is anaphora?
400
To emphasize.
What is repetition?
400
Repetition of the last word of one line or clause to being to the next.
What is anadiplosis?
400
If you go to a funeral and say "Everyone's looking dead today."
What is double entendre?
400
A grammatical construction, normally noun phrases are placed side by side.
What is apposition?
400
We lived and laughed and loved and left.
What is polysyndeton?
500
To make what the writer is saying sounds more appealing.
What is euphemism?
500
A saying of embodying a general truth or observation.
What is aphorism?
500
"The world treated him badly."
What is synecdoche?
500
Use of something to make up a whole - substitutes one word for another.
What is metonymy?
500
Even a large male gorilla, unaccustomed to tourists, is frightened by people.
What is diction?
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