a figure of speech employing deliberate, emphatic exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
100
A rhetorical strategy that attempts to persuade using appeals to logic.
What is logos?
200
A figure of speech in which human characteristics are bestowed upon anything nonhuman, from abstract idea to a physical force to an inanimate object to a living organism.
What is personification?
200
Order, pattern, structure, system ( think sentence)
What is syntax?
200
A figure of speech that associates two distinct things without using a connective word (such as LIKE or AS) to link them together.
What is a metaphor?
200
A rhetorical strategy that attempts to persuade using appeals to emotion.
What is pathos?
300
The art of persuasion through speaking and writing.
What is rhetoric?
300
A question used to evoke a response or thought but not intended to be actually answered.
What is a rhetorical question?
300
A figure of speech that associates two distinct things using the connective words LIKE or AS.
What is a simile?
300
A rhetorical strategy that attempts to persuade using appeals to character.
What is ethos?
400
A popular form of verse consisting of fourteen lines and a prescribed rhyme scheme.