Definition
Anaphora
What is repeating the same expression (word or words) at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences?
Asking a question and using the passage to answer it.
What is hypophora?
Syntax
What is the way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences?
The overuse of conjunctions.
What is polysyndeton?
Rizz
What is a colloquialism?
Clause
What is a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb?
Works with the primary aim of teaching or instructing, especially the teaching of moral or ethical principles.
What is didactic?
Exigence
What is the situation or problem that prompts an argument?
Any bitter and ironic criticism of contemporary persons and institutions that is filled with personal invective, angry moral indignation, and pessimism.
What is juvenalian satire?
War is peace.
What is a paradox?
Epithet
What is an adjective or phrase that expresses a striking quality of a person or thing?
A figure of speech in which two successive phrases or clauses are parallel in syntax, but reverse the order of the analogous words.
What is chiasmus?
Antithesis
What is a figure of balance in which two contrasting ideas are intentionally juxtaposed, usually through parallel structure; a contrasting of opposing ideas in adjacent phrases, clauses, or sentences?
A terse statement of know authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle. Can be the memorable summation of the author's point.
What is an aphorism?
Almost upon the western wave
Rested the broad bright Sun.
What is synechdoche?
Homily
What is any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice?
The repetition of a word or phrase after an intervening word or phrase.
What is a diacope?
Allusion
What is a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art?
A figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated.
What is metonymy?
I like pink. This cake is pink. I like this cake.
What is syllogistic reasoning?
What is denunciatory or abusive language; discourse that casts blame on somebody or something?
A special form of understatement, where the surface denial serves, through ironic contrast, to reinforce the underlying assertion.
What is a litote?
Caricature
What is a verbal description, the purpose of which is to exaggerate or distort, for comic effect, a person’s distinctive physical features or other characteristics?
Literally, "talking around" a subject; i.e., discourse that avoids direct reference to a subject.
What is circumlocution?
You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit.
What is a zeugma?