They are collectively the four traditional categories of writing.
What are the modes of discourse?
100
The difference between what the author literally states and what is really meant. The three types are verbal, situational, and dramatic.
What is irony?
100
A work that is meant to inform an/or demonstrate a point.
What is an exposition?
100
A comparison usually using the terms "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
The repetition of vowel sounds in consecutive words.
What is assonance?
200
The writer's word choice, with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness.
What is diction?
200
A figure of speech that addresses either an imaginary person or someone who isn't there like a personified concept such as love or liberty.
What is apostrophe?
200
A work that tells a story through a series of events.
What is a narration?
200
The emphasis of two contrasting ideas by placing them next to one another in sentence.
What is an antithesis?
200
The repetition of a word of phrase, that is followed by additional information in order to clarify the meaning of the original word or phrase.
What is amplification?
300
The author's chosen sentence structure. It refers to the arrangement of grammatical elements in a sentence.
What is syntax?
300
It presents something as less significant than it really is to minimize it ironically.
What is an understatement?
300
It presents six or seven sources about the same topic in order for the reader to summarize and use the passages to support and illustrate their thesis.
What is a synthesis essay?
300
A figure of speech that that groups contradictory terms in order to suggest a paradox. Example - "jumbo shrimp"
What is an oxymoron?
300
The omission of conjunctions when separating a series of items.
What is asyndeton?
400
The author's attitude toward the audience, material, or both.
What is tone?
400
A figure of speech where a part is used for the whole, or the whole for a part.
What is synechdoche?
400
It presents one passage and the reader has to formulate an essay discussing whether they agree or disagree with what the author states.
What is the argument essay?
400
The use of a double negative to generate a positive understatement.
What is litotes?
400
The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.
What is anaphora?
500
A character's personality seen through their narration.
What is voice?
500
It comes from the Greek word for "changed label." It means a figure of speech where the name of an object is replaced by another word that is closely related to it.
What is metonymy?
500
It is a rhetorical mode used to present a person, event, action, or place with imagery so that the reader can visualize it in their head.
What is a description?
500
Two closely placed phrases reverse each other in a type of inverted parallelism.
What is chiasmus?
500
An author anticipates a reader's objection and then answers it, before moving on with their thesis.