Definitions
Speaking directly to the audience
Aside
What device compares the difference between two or more things?
A. Diatribe B. Endnote
C. Contrast D. Reference
C. Contrast
Imagery
Uses vivid description that appeals to a reader sense to create an image or idea.
“You’ve been sooo helpful”
Sarcasm
Go to your room!
Imperative mood
words that imitate the sounds they refer to
Onomatopoeia
What device is the more formal word for slang?
A. Colloquialism B. Cliché
C. Indifference D. Motif
A. Colloquialism
Nostalgia
A way of referring to a general as well as a specific interest in the past or past events.
A Diamond in the rough
Cliche
The favor or support to a particular person, group, race, or argument over another.
Bias
a change in the tone or mood in a piece of writing
Shift
What device is similar to Deduction: A type of logical reasoning where the conclusion is gotten from two linked premises
A. Rhetoric B. Melodrama
C. Syllogism D. Personification
C. Syllogism
Syntax
The arrangement of words in sentences, clauses, and phrases.
She passed away
Euphemism
Apostrophe
when a writer or speaker directly addresses an absent person, a concept, or an inanimate object.
A word or phrase that the softens an uncomfortable topic
Euphemism
When there is disappointment because expectations were not met
A. Diatribe C. Characterization
B. Audience D. Anticlimax
Anticlimax
Generalization
A broad statement that applies to many examples
"In football a team can choose to challenge a penalty car"
Repudiation
To have an equal but opposite effect on something in a positive way.
A. Assertion C. Counterbalance
B. Counterexample D. Ambivalence
Counterbalance
A sentence in which the main clause or its predicate is withheld until the end.
Periodic Sentence
A literary device used to describe something or someone with characteristics that are more interesting and prominent than they are in reality.
A. Epithet C. Motif
B. Details D. Narrative Development
Epithet
Deduction
A method of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the state premises.
I've drank coffee all of my life and I'm still short, therefor coffee does stunt your growth.
Fallacious Claim
Speech is silver but silence is gold
Antithesis