Rhetorical Devices
A metaphor directly compares using 2 things without using the words _______ or _______.
What is like/as?
To give human qualities to an object, animal, or idea is called
What is personification?
This takes place when something happens that is the opposite of what readers would expect.
What is irony?
This is used to introduce a list, explanation, or quotation that follows a complete sentence.
What is a colon?
This is the central idea, or underlying message, that an author conveys throughout a story.
What is theme?
"Kicked the bucket" is example of
What is idiom?
A comparison of 2 or more things using the words like or as is called
What is simile?
"Word pictures" that help readers see, hear, feel, smell, and taste the experiences in a piece of writing are called
What is imagery?
This tense is used to describe actions, states of being, or events that occurred before the present time.
What is past tense?
The time and place in which a story occurs.
What is setting?
To emphasize the importance of something, an author might use
What is repetition?
- Her eyes shined like the sun.
What is simile?
This is the central idea of an argument.
What is claim?
This is used to join 2 closely related independent clauses (complete sentences) together.
What is a semicolon?
Questions that do not require or expect an answer.
What are rhetorical questions?
A hyperbole is an exaggerated statement or claim not meant to be taken ________.
What is literally?
These are used to make inferences about word/phrase meaning while reading a text.
What are context clues?
A writer's use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the story is called
What is foreshadowing?
Pronoun - ___________ agreement is the need for a pronoun to match its antecedent in terms of number, gender, and person.
What is pronoun-antecedent agreement?
This reflects why an author wrote a text - what he/she hopes to communicate.
What is author's purpose?
A form of repetition in which a grammatical pattern is repeated
What is parallelism?
What is extended metaphor?
This is where the author sums up the claim with a strong statement about what the audience should believe.
What is conclusion?
"... we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together..."
This is an example of..
What is parallelism?
How an author thinks or feels about a subject