Attacks the opposing speaker or another person rather than addressing the issues at hand. Appeals to emotion rather than reason, to feeling rather than intellect.
What is Ad Hominem Argument
100
A purposeful hint placed in a work of literature to suggest what may occur later in the narrative
What is Foreshadowing
100
The use of reason as a controlling principle in an argument
What is Logos
100
A seeming contradiction that in fact reveals some truth
What is Paradox
100
When an author assigns less significance to an event or thing than it deserves
What is Understatement
200
the repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of series of clauses, or sentences
What is Anaphora
200
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used to achieve emphasis
What is Hyperbole
200
the telling of a story or an account of an event or serious of events
What is Narrative
200
A literary technique that relies on the use of the same syntactical structures
What is Parallelism
200
a perfect world
What is Utopia
300
a representation, especially pictorial or literary, in which the subject's distinctive features are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic effect.
What is Caricature
300
the major category into which a literary work fits.
What is Genre
300
A type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses.
What is Loose Sentence
300
one of the major divisions of genre, prose refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms, because they are written in ordinary language and most closely resemble everyday speech
What is Prose
300
is intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights, humorous statement
What is Wit
400
An author's choice of words
What is Diction
400
A mental picture that is conjured by specific words and associations
What is Imagery
400
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
What is Metonymy
400
A question that is asked for the sake of argument
What is Rhetorical Question
400
When a word is used with two adjacent words in the same construction, but only makes literal sense with one of them
What is Zeugma
500
a metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work
What is Extended Metaphor
500
When two contrasting things are placed next to each other for comparison
What is Juxtaposition
500
Two contradictory words in one expression
What is Oxymoron
500
A form of deductive reasoning in which pieces of evidence are used to create a new conclusion
What is Syllogism
500
narrator who is naïve, misleading, biased, inaccurate