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Rhetoric
Literary Devices
Figurative Language
Style & Craft
Big Ideas
100
A sympathetic feeling of pity of compassion evoked by an artistic work.
What is pathos?
100
The prevailing or dominant feeling of a work, scene or event, often brought on by the author's use of imagery/description.
What is mood?
100
A reference, usually oblique or faint, to another thing, idea, or person.
What is an allusion?
100
When two contrasting things are placed next to each other for comparison.
What is a juxtaposition?
100
A feeling of excitement and expectation the reader or audience feels because of the conflict, mood, or atmosphere of the work.
What is tension?
200
A fallacy in which the author/speaker attacks the character or nature of his/her opposition rather than deals with the issues at hand.
What is an ad hominem argument?
200
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used to achieve emphasis.
What is hyperbole?
200
A figure of speech in which ideas or objects are described as having human qualities or personalities.
What is personification?
200
A literary technique that relies on the use of the same syntactical structures.
What is parallelism?
200
The central idea.
What is theme or thesis?
300
The author's attitude toward his/her subject.
What is tone?
300
Assonance and alliteration are both examples of these.
What are sound devices?
300
Similes and metaphors are both examples of this.
What is analogy?
300
When the author's use of diction places two contradictory words in the same expression.
What is an oxymoron?
300
When a situation produces an outcome that is opposite of what is expected.
What is irony?
400
An ethical or value-driven argument (i.e. Uncle Sam needs "a few good men.").
What is ethos?
400
A word that mean the same, or nearly the same, as another word.
What is a synonym?
400
The reiteration of a word or phrase for emphasis.
What is repetition?
400
The way in which words are arranged in a sentence.
What is syntax?
400
Something that stands for an idea or concept.
What is a symbol?
500
A question asked for the sake of argument?
What is a rhetorical question?
500
When an author assigns less significance to an event or thing than it deserves.
What is an understatement?
500
A well-known phrase/figure of speech that means something other than the literal meaning of its combined words.
What is an idiom?
500
A short story used to illustrate a point the author is making.
What is an anecdote?
500
The particular perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?