Why not waste a wild weekend at Westmore Water Park?
What is alliteration?
100
"The air-lifted rhinoceros hit the ground like a garbage bag filled with split pea soup."
What is a simile?
100
Also known as an independent clause.
What is a simple sentence.
100
Speaking in such a way as to imply the contrary of what one says, often for the purpose of derision, mockery, or jest.
What is irony?
100
The operation is over. On the table, the knife lies spent, on its side, the bloody meal smear-dried upon its flanks. The knife rests. - Richard Selzer,
What is personification?
200
The repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or lines.
What is anaphora?
200
Unlike a simile this comparison is not explicit.
What is a metaphor?
200
"Over the woodlands brown and bare, over the harvest-fields forsaken, silent and soft, and slow, descends the snow.”
What is periodic sentence?
200
In literature, a work in which the style of an author is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule.
What is parody?
200
"The Sounds of Silence" is an example of this juxtaposition of two ordinarily opposing terms.
What is oxymoron?
300
The repetition of similar vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
300
Rhetorical exaggeration, often accomplished via comparisons, similes, and metaphors.
hyperbole
300
A clause that can be divided into three main types: noun clauses, adjective clauses, and adverb clauses.
What is a dependent clause?
300
Although usually meant to be funny, the purpose of this genre is not primarily humor in itself so much as an attack on something of which the author strongly disapproves, using the weapon of wit.
What is satire?
300
A whole is represented by naming one of its parts (genus named for species), or vice versa (species named for genus).
What is synecdoche?
400
Employing many conjunctions between clauses, often slowing the tempo or rhythm.
What is polysyndeton?
400
"Who captains the ship of state?"
What is a metaphor?
400
Perch are inexpensive; cod are cheap; trout are abundant; but salmon are best.
What is parallelism?
400
Hostile, critical comments expressed in an ironic way.
What is sarcasm?
400
A rhetorical device Shakespeare uses when Antony addresses Caesar's corpse immediately following the assassination in Julius Caesar:
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth.
What is apostrophe?
500
The inclusion of more information than is necessary for communication.
What is redundancy?
500
Metaphors are often used in this rhetorical appeal to the emotion.
What is pathos?
500
A general term describing when one part of speech (most often the main verb, but sometimes a noun) governs two or more other parts of a sentence (often in a series).
What is zeugma?
500
This program satirizes an opinionated and self-righteous, conservative television commentator.
What is The Colbert Report
500
"It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain." —J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye