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Taking someone else's work and passing it off as your own
What is Plagiarization
100
Giving human characteristics to nonliving things.
What is Personification
100
Prejudice in favor of, or against something
What is Bias
100
Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit
What is a Couplet
100
Choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing
What is Diction
200
A play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character.
What is Tragedy
200
The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities
What is Symbolism
200
The quality or state of being reliable
What is Reliability
200
The act of speaking one's thoughts aloud
What is a Soliloquy
200
Situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities
What is Paradox
300
Appeal to credibility
What is Ethos
300
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is a Hyperbole
300
Uncertainty about a problem that can be challenged, examined, and analyzed to provide useful information.
What is a Researchable Question
300
Flaw leading to the downfall of a hero
What is a Tragic Flaw
300
Action of repeating something that has already been said or written
What is Repetition
400
Appeal to logic
What is Logos
400
A contrast between expectation and reality
What is Irony
400
To reword something written or spoken by someone else.
What is to Paraphrase
400
Ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of poem of verse
What is Rhyme Scheme
400
Correspondence of sound between words or the ending of words.
What is Rhyme
500
Appeal to emotion
What is Pathos
500
An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly, an indirect or passing reference.
What is Allusion
500
A statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or improved.
What is a Thesis
500
a part of an actor's lines supposedly not heard by others on the stage and intended only for the audience.
What is Aside
500
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
What is Alliteration