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Vocabulary
Rhetoric
Writer's terms
Brushstrokes
Miscellaneous
100
a witty remark, a noun, begins with a rare consonant
What is quip
100
The three points of the rhetorical triangle
What is audience, speaker and purpose?
100
A type of question a writer poses for effect, expecting no answer.
What is rhetorical?
100
The boy, boisterous and mischeivous, pulled the girl's hair.
What is adjectives out of order?
100
Harsh sounds created for an effect.
What is cacophony?
200
secretive, almost sneaky; adjective
What is furtive?
200
An appeal to one's emotions
What is pathos?
200
A writer's choice of words
What is diction?
200
The race car zoomed around the track and collided with the guard rail.
What are action verbs?
200
A short personal story to capture a reader's attention.
What is anecdote?
300
a beautiful view often of a landscape
What is vista?
300
An author's credibility/believability in his or her writing
What is ethos?
300
A writer's attitude toward his/her subject
What is tone?
300
John, a military man, served his country well.
What is an appositive?
300
A rhetorical appeal to logic.
What is logos?
400
to boast or brag in an annoying way; verb
What is to gloat?
400
the overuse of conjunctions to stress a point or make a list of items seem daunting
What is polysyndeton?
400
The literal dictionary definition of a word
What is denotation?
400
Writing with his favorite pen, Ben created a masterful poem.
What is participle phrase?
400
The word order of a sentence.
What is syntax?
500
adherence to the rules; very rigid following of a set of rules; a noun
What is orthodoxy?
500
The repetition of threes is known as this
What are triads?
500
A reference to a well known person, place or event
What is allusion?
500
Bodies moving, music pulsing, the concert was a mass of flesh and noise.
What is absolute phrases?
500
The emotional association of a word.
What is connotation?