Appeals to emotions and/or speaker's expressing emotion.
What pathos?
100
the emotional quality of a passage or the perceived attitude of a speaker towards a thing or idea in the text.
What is tone?
100
a short, incomplete sentence structure; usually used for emphasis or to match thought structure
What is a fragment?
100
ridiculing to show weakness in order to make a point, teach.
What is satirical?
100
a basic comparison of two generally unlike things that produced insight.
What is metaphor?
200
a line of reasoning that is easy to follow; appeals to others' sense of reasonableness
What is logos?
200
the author's choice of words based on their exact or connotative meaning for effect.
What is diction?
200
the rhythm or "music" of a sentence that come through parallel elements and repetition.
What is cadence?
200
instructive; author attempts to educate or instruct the reader.
What is didactic?
200
details that appeal to multiple senses
What is synesthesia?
300
an error in reasoning
What is a fallacy?
300
what a word suggests beyond its denotative (precise or dictionary) meaning, including social or emotional connections.
What is connotation?
300
a sentence in which the most important idea comes first and the rest of the sentence unfolds easily after that (revealing information not critical to the climax).
What is a loose sentence?
300
serious in purpose and convention (no slang, contractions; no idioms; written in third person).
What is formal?
300
the use of a related object or attribute to represent someone/something; such as "suits" for business people or the expression "the pen is mightier than the sword"
What is metonymy?
400
appeals to the audience's sense of ethics or morals; or, the speaker's credibility
What is ethos?
400
a clever little story; a short account of an interesting situation relevant to the text and used as example.
What is an anecdote?
400
a sentence structure in which the most important information, or main clause, is moved to the end of the sentence
What is a periodic sentence?
400
a tone that is lacking emotional attachment
What is detached/indifferent/factual?
400
an elaborate, intellectually ingenious metaphor used to introduce an idea; it may be brief or extended. Example: "collecting your jar of hearts" to establish betrayal in relationships.
What is a conceit?
500
an argument structure with a major premise followed by a minor premise leading to a valid/invalid conclusion
What is a syllogism?
500
a moment of insight, spiritual or personal; a character's sudden revelation about life or his or her own circumstances.
What is epiphany?
500
this type of sentence construction (or even paragraph construction) contains balanced grammatical structures that provide similar rhetorical value.
What is parallel sentence or parallel structure?
500
learned, polished, scholarly. (Like the intellectuals in Divergent)
What is erudite?
500
a part used to represent the whole; such as "bark" for a tree or forest, or "faces" as in a "sea of faces" for a group of people