C's and E's
Lou Gehrig's Farewell Speech is a classic example of what device that uses softer speech substitutions?
What is Euphemism?
"I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low."
What is amplification?
A question not meant to be answered by the audience
What is a rhetorical question?
I asked Jaimie if she could give me a ride.
What is synecdoche?
"To be, or not to be"
What is a rhetorical question?
If clauses or sentences all end with the same words or phrases, what device is used?
What is Epistrophe?
"Give me liberty, or give me death!"
What is antithesis?
What is the contrasting of two things in a text?
What is Juxtaposition?
Carpe diem.
What is aphorism?
“It was the East, and Juliet was the sun.”
What is metonymy?
If a person uses examples to prove a point, which device could be used?
What is Exemplification?
"Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country."
What is chiasmus?
Which device means that sentences will be grammatically structured in a similar manner to other sentences in the text?
What is parallelism?
I have work and school and violin practice and tennis practice and have to babysit my little sister.
What is Polysyndeton?
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…”
What is antithesis?
Informal speech in a text is known as?
What is Colloquialism?
"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be."
What is anaphora?
Which device is an extreme exaggeration of a thing or situation?
What is hyperbole?
I came, I saw, I conquered.
What is Asyndeton?
“I can resist anything but temptation.”
What is a paradox?
What device has elements of juxtaposition, but requires a certain order of grammar?
What is chiasmus?
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
What is synecdoche?
What is an anecdote?
Curiosity killed the cat.
What is Idiom?
“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.”
What is amplification?