Figurative Language
Language that communicates ideas beyond the literal meaning of words.
What is figurative language?
It takes place when the opposite of what is expected actually happens
What is situational irony?
Type of mode of rhetoric that is related to emotions of the audience
What is pathos?
What SPACE stands for in SPACECAT
What is Speaker, purpose, audience, context, and exigence?
The use of a brief reference to a person, event or place to a work of art or literature
What is allusion?
When an object, animal, or idea is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
When readers know more about a situation in a story than the characters do
What is dramatic irony?
Type of mode of rhetoric that is related to the credibility of a speaker
What is ethos?
What CAT stands for in SPACECAT
What is choices, appeals, and tone?
A similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases or clauses
What is parallelism?
A figure of speech that compares two unlike things
What is a metaphor?
When something happens that is opposite from what is expected
What is irony?
The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing
The speaker/author's attitude towards a subject
What is tone?
A sentence consisting of two independent clauses joined by a conjunction and a comma.
What is a compound sentence?
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
Occurs when someone states one thing and means another
What is verbal irony?
A question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.
What is a rhetorical question?
The spark/catalyst that moved the author to write
What is exigence?
A subject and its verbs must be both singular or both plural. (What is this called?)
What is a subject-verb agreement?
A figure of speech that compares two things that have something in common, using a word such as like or as
What is a simile?
What type of irony?:
Reacting to a hurricane by saying, "What lovely weather we're having."
Verbal Irony
The three rhetorical appeals
logos, ethos, and pathos
The target group a piece is directed at
What is audience?
Main idea often called a thesis statement, backed up with evidence that supports the idea.
What is an argumentative thesis?