Making Your Argument
Logos
Persuading by appealing to logic
Personification
Giving non-human objects human characteristics
Paradox
A statement that appears to contradict itself but might be true
Alliteration
Repetition of the same sound at the beginning of each word
Tone
The feeling of the author toward the subject
Pathos
Persuading by appealing to emotions
Simile
A comparison using like or as
allusion
a reference to another text
Euphemism
An indirect way of saying something harsh
Mood
The feeling a text creates in the reader
Ethos
Persuading by appealing to ethics
Metaphor
A comparison that does not use like or as
Soliloquy
A lengthy speech in which a character shares his or her inner thoughts
Pun
A Play on Words, usually involving more than one meaning of the word
Tragedy
A play or short story that ends in death, misery, and/or disaster
Contrast
Identifying differences
Hyperbole
Exaggeration
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that juxtaposes contradictory elements
Conflict
An incompatibility and himself, another character, nature or fate
meter
the rhythm of a poem
Compare
Identifying Similarities
Irony
An unexpected outcome OR an outcome the reader foresees but the character does not
Onomatopoeia
Words that mimic sounds
Aside
A comment made by a character meant for the audience to hear
Internal rhyme
Rhyme between words within a line of poetry OR between a word within a line and a word at the end of the line