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An aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing
What is Occasion
100
The fresh and juicy oranges are very cold and sweet.
What is Imagery?
100
Pacing
What is Pay- Sing?
100
The assignment was a breeze.
What is Metaphor?
100
Information that is true or demonstrable.
What is Fact?
200
A Greek term that means "word"; an appeal to logic; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals.
What is Logos?
200
"You can save money by spending it." "Be cruel to be kind." "Nobody goes to that restaurant because it's too crowded."
What is Paradox?
200
Horatory
What is Hor- tah- tor -e?
200
"A man who is a traffic cop ge4ts his license suspended for unpaid parking tickets."
What is Irony?
200
A Greek term referring to the character; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals.
What is Ethos?
300
A sentence in which the verb precedes the subject.
What is Inversion?
300
"The toast jumped out of the toaster." "I've told you to a million times to clean your room!" "The Redcoats are coming!"
What is Figurative Language?
300
Metonymy
What is Me- tahn- ne- mi?
300
"If you want to go with me." "Since you asked." "After the rain stops."
What is Fragment?
300
Retelling an event or series of events.
What is Narration?
400
Turning a verb or adjective into a noun.
What is Nominalization?
400
Anaphora, Assonance, Euphemism...
What is Figure of Speech?
400
Omniscient Narrator
What is Ahm- Neh- Shent- Nare- Rae- Tor?
400
"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse."
What is Hyperbole?
400
The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns.
What is Parallelism?
500
Explanation of a text's meaning through an analysis of all of its constituent parts, including the literary device used; also called close reading.
What is Explication of Text?
500
"The monkey crossed the road." // "At three o'clock, the monkey crossed the fast road by the fast food restaurant."
What is Modifier?
500
Juxtaposition
What is Jucks- ta- pose- ih- shin?
500
"Beauty and Ugliness" "Belief and Denial" "Calm and Chaos"
What is Juxtaposition?
500
A sentence that requests or commands.
What is Imperative Sentence?