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
sentence or word order this often involves putting the verb before the subject
What is inversion?
100
ridiculing to show weakness in order to make a point, teach.
What is satirical (or satire)?
100
a basic comparison of two generally unlike things that produced insight.
What is metaphor?
200
a combination of sounds that produces a harsh or discordant effect.
What is cacophony?
200
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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
a term consisting of contradictory elements juxtaposed to create a paradoxical effect
What is an oxymoron?
300
the repetition of vowel sounds: “which din dims the light.”
What is assonance?
300
what a word suggests beyond its denotative (precise or dictionary) meaning, including social or emotional connections.
What is connotation?
300
a rhetorical opposition or contrast of ideas by means of grammatical arrangement of words, clauses, or sentences: "They promised freedom but provided slavery"
What is antithesis?
300
serious in purpose and convention (no slang, contractions; no idioms).
What is formal?
300
a comparison that points out similarities between dissimilar things (_____ : ______ as ______ : ______)
What is an analogy?
400
the speaker addresses something or someone that cannot answer, something nonliving or inanimate.
What is apostrophe?
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
what we call a sentence that is two independent clauses joined by a conjunction.
What is a compound sentence?
400
language or a phrase specific to a certain area
What is colloquial?
400
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an elaborate, intellectually ingenious metaphor that shows the poet's realm of knowledge; it may be brief or extended.
What is a conceit?
500
represented by a two syllable foot that contains one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is iambic meter?
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 parallelism or parallel structure?
500
learned, polished, scholarly.
What is erudite?
500
a short quotation or verse that precedes a text to set the tone, provide a setting, or give other context