Figurative Language
Irony
Rhetoric
SPACECAT
Miscellaneous
100

Language that communicates ideas beyond the literal meaning of words.

What is figurative language?

100

It takes place when the opposite of what is expected actually happens

What is situational irony?

100

Type of mode of rhetoric that is related to emotions of the audience

What is pathos?

100

What SPACE stands for in SPACECAT

What is Speaker, purpose, audience, context, and exigence?

100

The use of a brief reference to a person, event or place to a work of art or literature

What is allusion?

200

When an object, animal, or idea is given human characteristics.

What is personification?

200

When readers know more about a situation in a story than the characters do

What is dramatic irony?

200

Type of mode of rhetoric that is related to the credibility of a speaker

What is ethos?

200

What CAT stands for in SPACECAT

What is choices, appeals, and tone?

200

A similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases or clauses 

What is parallelism?

300

A figure of speech that compares two unlike things

What is a metaphor?

300

When something happens that is opposite from what is expected

What is irony?

300

The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing

What is rhetoric?
300

The speaker/author's attitude towards a subject

What is tone?

300

A sentence consisting of two independent clauses joined by a conjunction and a comma.

What is a compound sentence? 

400

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

What is alliteration?

400

Occurs when someone states one thing and means another

What is verbal irony?

400

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?

400

The spark/catalyst that moved the author to write

What is exigence? 

400

A subject and its verbs must be both singular or both plural. (What is this called?)

What is a subject-verb agreement?

500

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?

500

What type of irony?:

Reacting to a hurricane by saying, "What lovely weather we're having."

Verbal Irony

500

The three rhetorical appeals 

logos, ethos, and pathos

500

The target group a piece is directed at

What is audience?

500

Main idea often called a thesis statement, backed up with evidence that supports the idea.

What is an argumentative thesis?