Lingua Græca
This rhetorical device is akin to a level balance, positing two things as similar; although, it must be distinguished from the other device that uses "like" and "as"!
What is analogy?
I like this device, but I don't like it the same way as I like puzzles.
What is simile?
Euphemisms require substituting this.
What is offensive language?
What is "logos?"
Rhetoric was a valuable skill for leadership in this comparatively democratic city-state of Ancient Greece.
What is Athens?
Any learned person will surely use this device, be they a fiction writer, or a poet, or a speechwriter, or a businessman, or a humble orator.
What is polysyndenton?
When you use this device, either you cook in English, or English cooks you.
What is chiasmus?
Assonance involves similar or identical types of these.
What are vowels?
By presenting their background and previous works, a writer hopes to utilize this appeal to make themselves believable.
What is "ethos?"
This philosopher was one of the first to delineate the names, methods, and effects of the three modes of appeal.
Who was Aristotle?
Sometimes in rhetoric, sentences are more powerful when...
What is aposiopesis?
When I think about this device, I am reminded of my first day in my sixth grade English class, in which I was the most clueless kid at Copper Beech, learning all of these new words.
What is an anecdote?
To foreshadow, you must allude to these in your writing.
What are future events/arguments?
This English word most closely corresponds to "pathos."
What is passion?
This president excellently demonstrated chiasmus with the following: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
Who was John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
Writings that use this device may appear to be the strangest and clearest texts in the world.
What is a paradox?
For some, essay writing is the hardest thing to do, the best thing to do, the fastest way to a good grade, and the slowest path to one.
What is juxtaposition?
Antitheses contain two ideas that are related in this way.
What is contrast?
This English word most closely corresponds to "ethos."
What is character?
This British Prime Minister demonstrated anaphora in the following sentence: "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."
Who was Winston Churchill?
When you're learning rhetoric, when you're searching through poetry for hidden meaning, when you're writing your own speeches, this rhetorical device comes to mind.
Sally Sue Sr., my sister, surely sells sea shells on the sea shore; she likes this device the most.
What is alliteration?
You may point your pen to parallelism when you find clauses in sentences that have this.
What are equal grammatical structures/patterns?
This rhetorical appeal is often deemed the most powerful, as emotions often overpower our ability to reason.
What is "pathos?"
Eloquence in speaking was one of the virtues emphasized in the philosophy of this Chinese philosopher.
Who was Confucius (孔子)?