Syntax(answers will be definitions)
Syntax(answers will be terms)
Figurative Language
Rhetorical terms(answers will be definitions)
Rhetorical terms(answers will be terms)
100

What is alliteration

 the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely related words.

100

The means of persuasion that appeals to the audience's emotions.

Pathos

100

A hyperbole is

exaggerated statements or claims that are not meant to be taken seriously.

100

What is antithesis

figure of balance in which two contrasting ideas are intentionally juxtaposed.

100

The omission of words in a phrase or sentence via the use of the periods.

Ellipsis.

200

What is asyndeton

the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. 

200

Literary techniques in which conjunctions are used repeatedly in quick succession, often with no commas, even when conjunctions should be removed.

Polysyndeton

200

vivid descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the senses.

Imagery

200

What is diction

The choice and use of words in speech or writing

200

The emotional implications and associations a word may carry; the implied or suggested meaning of a word.

Connotation

300

What is ethos

a pursuasive appeal based on the credibility or character of the speaker or narrator.

300

a figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole, the whole for a part, the specific for the general, or the material for the thing made from it.

Synecdoche

300

What is irony

The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning.

300
What is a flashback

a shift in narrative to an earlier event that interrupts the normal chronological development of a story.

300

The specialized language of a professional, occupational, or other group, often meaningless to outsiders.

Jargon

400

What is juxtaposition

Placing dissimilar items, descriptions, or ideas close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.

400

The repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences.

Epistrophe

400

The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.

Onomatopoeia

400

What is prose

Ordinary writing both fiction and non-fiction as distinguished from verse

400

a word employed in two senses, or a word used in a context that suggests a second term sounding like it.

Pun

500

What is euphemism

The substitution of of an inoffensive term for an explicit word.

500

The identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.

Assonance

500

What is a paradox

A statement that appears to contradict itself but actually contains a degree of truth.

500

What is an understatement

a figure of speech in which a writer deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is.

500

Reasoning or arguing from parallel cases.

Analogy