Diction 1
Diction 2
Sentence Type
Syntax
Bonus
100
Alliteration
What is the occurrance of the same lettter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
100
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrses, clauses, or lines.
What is Anaphora
100
Cumulative Sentence
What is sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence then builds and adds on.
100
Inversion
What is inverted order of words in a sentence.
100
Comparing two things using like or as.
What is simile
200
Repetition of words in reverse order.
What is Antimetabole
200
Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer.
What is Rhetorical Question
200
Sentence that exorts, urges, implores or calls to action.
What is Horative Sentence
200
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences.
What is juxtaposition
200
To make a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that souncd alike but have different meanings.
What is pun
300
Metaphor
What is Figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as.
300
Synecdoche
What is figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole.
300
Imperative Sentence
What is sentence used to command or enjoin.
300
Antithesis
What is opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction.
300
A diagram that illustrates the interrelationship among the speaker, audience, and subject in determining a text.
What is rhetorical triangle
400
Archaic diction
What is old-fashioned or outdated choice of words.
400
Use of two different words in a gramatically similar way that produced a different, often incongruous meaning.
What is Zeugma
400
Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end.
What is Periodic Sentence
400
Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another
What is oxymoron
400
Speaker
What is the person or group who creates a text.
500
Asyndeton
What is omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words.
500
Attribution of a life-like quality to an inanimate object or idea.
What is Personification
500
Exclamatory Sentence
What is a sentence that expresses great emotion such as excitement,surprise, happiness and anger , and ends with an exclamation point.
500
Parallelism
What is similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.
500
A denial of the validity of an opposing argument.
What is refutation
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