Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis.
What is repetition?
100
Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste).
What is imagery?
100
The use of well-known, respected people to endorse a product or service.
What is testimonial advertising?
100
To hold the attention of something or someone with one's writing, to amuse them.
What is entertain?
100
The sequence of events in a story.
What is plot?
200
Words similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable.
What is rhyme?
200
A comparison of two unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
200
This advertising technique attempts to persuade the target audience to take a course of action "everyone else is taking." "Join the crowd." This technique reinforces people's natural desire to be on the winning side.
What is bandwagon?
200
To make readers aware of something through one's writing.
What is inform?
200
The perspective from which the writer tells the story (1st, 2nd, 3rd person; omniscient, limited omniscient).
What is point-of-view?
300
A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words. Simple examples include such words as buzz, hiss, hum.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes.
What is personification?
300
The use of everyday people to sell a product or service. Speakers and ads appear to make the person to be “one of the people.”
What is plain folk?
300
To convince someone to choose, take a certain point of view or action about something through one's writing.
What is persuade?
300
The turning point of a narrative work. It's point of highest tension or drama or when the action starts in which the solution is give.
What is climax?
400
Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
What is alliteration?
400
"She was fairly certain that life was a fashion show" is an example of this form of figurative language.
What is metaphor?
400
The strategy of showing the product’s best features, telling half-truths, and omitting or lying about its potential problems.
What is card-stacking?
400
A strong opinion about a topic that influences the way a writer writes; a preference or dislike for something.
What is bias?
400
The inherent incompatibility between the objectives of two or more characters or forces which creates tension and interest in a story, and may occur within a character's mind or between a character and exterior forces.
What is conflict?
500
"Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is." (slogan of Alka Seltzer, U.S.) is an example of these three sound devices.
What are: repetition, alliteration, and onomatopoeia?
500
The following poem involves several examples of this figurative language device.
Appetite
In a house the size of a postage stamp
lived a man as big as a barge.
His mouth could drink the entire river
You could say it was rather large
For dinner he would eat a trillion beans
And a silo full of grain,
Washed it down with a tanker of milk
As if he were a drain.
What is hyperbole?
500
In microeconomics, it is an economic model of price determination in a market. It concludes that in a competitive market, the unit price for a particular good will vary until it settles at a point where the quantity demanded by consumers (at current price) will equal the quantity supplied by producers (at current price), resulting in an economic equilibrium for price and quantity.
What is supply & demand?
500
An account written direct from the original source.
What is a first-hand account?
500
The part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.