Rhythm Language
This rhythm tool is often used in short and catchy phrases such as "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" and "Live, Laugh, Love"
Asyndeton
Which type of language is used, Abstract or Concrete?
Everyone loved Jonah's idea to redesign the roller-coaster
Abstract
The title of Petra's 1987 song "He Came, He Saw, He Conquered" uses this figure of speech as it relates to Caesar's famous line "I Came, I Saw, I Conquered."
Allusion
Songs often use this rhythm tool with words that don't perfectly rhyme, but sound similar.
Assonance
Which type of language is used, Abstract or Concrete?
Ryan and Sylvia went to the bowling alley last Saturday.
Concrete
Which figure of speech is used in this statement?
The drought traveled across the land, stepping on everything in its way
Personification
Yoda from Star Wars is known for talking backwards. This quote from Yoda, "The greatest teacher, failure is" is an example of what rhythm tool
Anastrophe
Which type of language is used, Abstract or Concrete?
Lucy and Margaret decided to go roller-skating after they visited Martha.
Concrete
What figure of speech is used in sentence?
It was a cold and rainy day, but the two friends went on a walk anyway. During the middle of the walk, one friend turned to the other and said, "What a beautiful day!"
Irony
Tongue twisters use three different rhyming tools, the most obvious being Alliteration. Name at least one of the other two rhyming tools used.
Assonance and Repetition
Which type of language is used in each portion of this sentence?
Julia dreamed of the day when she'd be able to ride a horse.
Abstract and Concrete
Which figure of speech is used in this sentence?
It rained all night long and the river flooded. John woke up, saw the damage, and said, "I see we got a little rain last night."
Understatement
In Hamlet, Shakespeare uses what rhythm tool in this quote, "Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice" ?
Antithesis
Which type of language is used in each portion of this sentence?
Harvey went on a run and then he drove home.
Concrete and Concrete
This 1590s love tragedy has been alluded to several times in other plays, books, songs, and many other pieces of literature and is one of the authors most famous works.
Romeo and Juliet