A contradictory statement that contains a truth. "Whoever loses life, shall find it."
What is paradox
200
Describes the author’s attitude toward his material
What is tone
200
awfully good (or crash landing) (or definitely maybe)
What is oxymoron
200
The way words are arranged in a sentence
What is syntax
200
The appeal of one's character or credibility to an audience
What is ethos
300
First person, third person limited, third person omniscient
What is point of view
300
When two words, phrases, images, ideas are placed close together or side by side for comparison or contrast.
What is juxtaposition
300
In books I find the dead as if they were alive; in books I foresee things to come; in books warlike affairs are
set forth; from books come forth the laws of peace.”
What is Anaphora
300
The implied or associated meanings of a term
What is connotation
300
Verbal, situational, dramatic
What is irony
400
The students spent all their time researching, reading, writing, pondering, daydreaming, sleeping.
What is Asyndeton
400
Another word for understatement.
Litotes
400
One or more questions is/are asked and then answered, often at length, by one and the same speaker. “When the enemy struck on that June day of 1950, what did America do? It did what it always has done in all its times of peril. It appealed to the heroism of its youth.” - Eisenhower
What is hypophora
400
The dictionary definition
What is denotation
400
The housework was endless, consisting of cleaning and washing and scrubbing and dusting and vacuuming and on and on and on.