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Just a Bunch of Rhetoric
You better watch your tone when speaking to me!
I'm Good With Words
Charades
I'll take that "L"
100

I can show you the world Shining, shimmering splendid. This Disney Aladdin song uses this repetition of sounds at the beginning of adjacent words.

What is alliteration?

100

This type of tone is used when you are charging someone of wrongdoing. It's the blame none of us want to be the victim of.

What is accusatory?

100

The author's use of words.

What is diction?

100

Person

Who is Betty?

100

Using facts, statistics, and reasoning is an appeal to this.

What is logos or logic?

200

And ain't I a woman?" Sojourner Truth uses this rhetorical device to appeal to the sympathetic emotion of her audience.

What is rhetorical question?

200
Rappers often use this very braggadocious tone when they brag about their money, cars, and clothes. How vain and arrogant!
What is haughty?
200

The Crucible is an example of this--a story that hints at some larger political meaning. 

What is an allegory?

200

Person

Who is Anne Bradstreet?

200
This is a form of diction that describes informal everyday language which most writers refrain from using in academic papers.
What is colloquial?
300

A commercial about donating money to hungry and homeless children, a pamphlet with facts of the negative effects drinking alcohol, and an ad endorsed by President Obama are RESPECTIVELY using these three appeals.


What is pathos, logos, and ethos?


300
This tone comes from the Greek word for "teach"--Hence the author's attempt to educate or instruct the reader
What is didactic?
300

When the audience knows something that a character in the text does not.

What is dramatic irony?

300

Place

What is the forest/woods?

300
This is usually some concrete object that represents a more abstract concept; like a dove representing peace or a heart representing love.
What is a symbol?
400

When two words, phrases, images, ideas are placed close together or side by side for comparison or contrast.

What is juxtaposition?

400
I feel like I can't do anything right. You FIND FAULT with everything I say and do.
What is critical?
400

A character who never changes throughout a text.


What is a static character?

400

Food

What is soup?

400

The lines "It's in the reach of my arms, The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lip" is written in this type of structure.

What is parallel?

500

"I got my mind on my money and my money on my mind." These are no Kris Kross lyrics, but it is an example of a rhetorical device which comes from the Greek word meaning Criss Cross. It is parallel in syntax but the words are reversed.

What is chiasmus?

500
"Back in the days when I was young--I'm not a kid anymore--but some days I sit and wish I was a kid again" I guess those were the good ole days...
What is reminiscent or reflective?
500

The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

What is satire?

500

Situation

What is the court scene where the girls are pretending that Mary Warren sent her spirit out to get them?

500

This is one of the few rhetorical devices that begin with "L." It describes a statement that is affirmed by negating its opposite. For example: "He's no fool." Meaning he's really smart. (You have until your time runs out to look it up)

What is litotes?