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MISCELLANEOUS
100
"He looks sharp as a razor" is an example of this.
What is a simile?
100
"Accurate estimate" or "cold fire" are examples of these.
What is an oxymoron?
100
"Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to to make justice a reality for all of God's children" is an example of this.
What is anaphora?
100
"Bring the buckets of big blueberries to the back counter" is an example of this.
What is alliteration?
100
"Tick-tock"
"Plop"
"Thump"
are examples of this.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! "Blue Moon, you saw me standing alone, Without a dream in my heart, Without a love of my own" is an example of this.
What is apostrophe? If you don't have this term on your list -- add it. An apostrophe is when a writer directly addresses a person, thing, or abstract idea that is not present (or alive).
200
"Opportunity is knocking at your door" is an example of this.
What is personification?
200
"When I was a child, I spoke as a child; I understood as a child, I thought as a child..." is an example of this.
What is epistrophe?
200
"The bigger they are, the harder they fall" is an example of this.
What is parallelism?
200
"A way or method of presenting a subject-through writing or speech, such as classification, cause and effect, or definition" is the definition of this.
What is rhetorical mode?
300
"You couldn't pay me a million dollars to do that job" is an example of this.
What is hyperbole?
300
"When the girl yelled out to me in the hallway, 'Nice threads,' it took me a while to understand what she meant" is an example of this.
What is synecdoche?
300
"I came, I saw, I conquered" is an example of this.
What is asyndeton? Also accepted: What is tricolon? OR What is climax (rhetoric crescendo)?
300
DAILY DOUBLE! “People know they face a greater insecurity than ever before: a new global economy; massive and rapid changes in technology; a labour market where half the workers are women; a family life that has been altered drastically; telecommunications and media that visit a common culture upon us and transform our expectation and behaviour" is a very long example of this.
What is piling? If you don't have this term on your list -- add it. Piling is the literal piling of words onto a description for amplification and emphasis.
300
"An apparently contradictory statement that nevertheless contains a measure of truth" is the definition of this.
What is paradox?
400
"This place is a house of cards" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
400
"He opened his wallet and his mind when buying tickets to the show" is an example of this.
What is zeugma?
400
"Refresh your zest for living" is an example of this.
What is assonance?
400
"Money is the root of all evils: poverty is the fruit of all goodness" is an example of this.
What is antithesis?
400
"Conversational or informal language" is the definition of this.
What is colloquialism?
500
"She's not the smartest person I've ever met" is an example of this.
What is litotes?
500
"Be careful. Big Brother is watching" is an example of this.
What is metonymy?
500
"Then suddenly fire burst from the Meneltarma, and there came a mighty wind and a tumult of the earth, and the sky reeled, and the hills slid, and Númenor went down into the sea, with all its children and its wives and its maidens and its ladies proud..." is an example of this.
What is polysyndeton?
500
"My mother weeping, my father wailing, my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat wringing her hands..." is an example of this.
What is homoioteleuton?
500
"Commonplace; prosaic or dull" is the definition of this.
What is pedestrian?