Rhetorical devices
There must have been a million reasons for NASA not to fund a trip to Jupiter.
What is Hyperbole?
That summer in 1959 I was sixteen and living on my uncle's farm in Nebraska.
What is narrative?
The type of sentence: The man walked his dog down the street every afternoon.
What is a loose sentence?
The bright, yellow daffodils swayed gently in the warm summer breeze.
What is imagery?
Indicates a particular feeling that the author has towards his subject . It can be joyful, serious, humorous, sad, threatening, formal, informal, pessimistic, and optimistic
What is tone?
Life can be kind and cruel, full of hope and heartache.
What is antithesis?
Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh seem like the ying and yang of talk radio.
What is Compare & Contrast?
The actor loved to perform, to sing, and especially to take his bow.
What is parallelism?
The whispering wind blowing through the sycamore trees spoke to me of days gone by.
What is personification?
How the author makes the reader feel through his choice of diction.
What is mood?
How do we know this is true? We have the results from the lab.
What is hypophora?
Because he hadn't studied, he was doomed to fail the final test.
What is cause & effect?
What type of sentence: Every afternoon no matter what kind of weather, Mr. Smith walked his Golden Retiever.
What is a periodic sentence?
He was a lion among men strutting his stuff as he prowled the hallways.
What is a metaphor?
Paragraphs 1-3 of In Cold Blood focused on the negative aspects of the town while paragraphs 4 & 5 focus on the positive.
What is organization/ structure?
The shower room was steamy like a Louisianna summer.
What is a simile?
In an argument, when a writer considers his opponent's position and replies with evidence to disprove him.
What is counter argument?
Finally, someone raised his hand. Finally, someone was participating. Finally, someone knew the answer.
What is anaphora?
The basketball player snatched the ball from the opposing team like Prometheus snatching fire from the gods.
What is an eponym?
Authors often choose a word with meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly.
What is connotation?
O, Death, where is thy sting?
What is apostrophe ?
Three methods of persuasion in an argument
What are thos, logos, & pathos?
A type of punctuation that can be used to connect 2 independent clauses.
What is a semicolon?
All is fair in love and war.
What is sententia?
An authors reason for or intent in writing.
What is author's purpose?