Rhetoric
Analogies
Literary Elements
Difficult Analogies
Parts of Speech
200

The reason that a writer/speaker is communicating with an audience

What is purpose?

200
Water is to _______ as snow is to sledding
swimming
200

Words that sound like what they are.  Examples of this are: Boom! Pow! Smash! Zap!

Onomatopoeia 

200

Cory is to Troy as Jem and Scout are to 

Atticus

200

This part of speech modifies nouns

Adjectives

400

Ethos, Pathos and Logos are the three of these.

What are the appeals?

400

Drop is to rain as _______ is to snow

Flake

400
An object that stands in for a larger idea/topic/theme.  The Mockingbird is an example of this in To Kill a Mockingbird

Symbol

400

Lyons is to Cory as Gabe is to ___________

Troy

400

A word that replaces a proper noun to continually refer to it.  This is often referred to as an "antecedent"

Pronoun

600

Atticus uses this to show that Tom Robinson could not have possibly assaulted Mayella Ewell.  One of the appeals

Logos

600
Soccer is to _______ as volleyball is to hand
foot
600

The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of ALL of the characters in the story

What is 3rd Person Omniscient

600

Simile is to Metaphor as denotation is to ___________

Connotation

600

This part of speech modifies verbs

Adverbs

800

The part of the rhetorical triangle that is directly impacted by Pathos

What is the audience?

800
Breakfast is to ______ as dinner is to evening
morning
800

Similes and Metaphors are the both figures of speech that make...

What are Comparisons

800

Atticus is to Tom Robinson as _______ is to Johnson Hinton

Malcolm X
800

This part of speech joins two clauses together.  The acronym FANBOYS is often used to help students remember this

What are conjunctions

1000

The Greek Philosopher that coined the term "rhetoric", meaning "the art of language". 

Aristotle

1000
Apple is to _______ as carrot is to vegetable
Fruit
1000

When vowel sounds are repeated rhythmically throughout a line or phrase.  An example would be, "Interviews by the pool, considered a fool 'cause I dropped out of high school". 

Assonance

1000

Logos is to Message as Ethos is to _________

What is the speaker?

1000

A word governing a noun or pronoun that shows a type of relationship 

Preposition