When a writer appeals to an audience's emotions to excite and involve them in the argument.
What is emotional appeal (pathos).
100
A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization of the sentence.
What is tone.
100
The choices in words an author makes.
What is diction.
100
Figurative language in which inanimate objects, animals, ideas, or abstractions are endowed with human traits or human form.
What is personification.
100
A pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect.
What is a scheme.
200
The choices in diction, tone, and syntax a writer makes which create a work's manner of expression.
What is style.
200
Artful diction; the use of language in a non-literal way.
What is a trope.
200
A rhetorical antithesis.
What is an oxymoron.
200
Explanatory notes added to a text to explain, cite sources, etc.
What is an annotation.
200
A conscious exaggeration used to heighten effect.
What is hyperbole.
300
The specialized language of a professional, occupational, or other group, often meaningless to outsiders.
What is jargon.
300
Language that describes specific, observable things, people, or places, rather than ideas or qualities.
What is concrete language.
300
The placement of two things side by side for emphasis.
What is juxtaposition.
300
Intent upon dealing with things external to the mind, rather than with thoughts or feelings; not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based on unbiased facts.
What is objective.
300
A sentence that requests or commands.
What is an imperative sentence.
400
The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns.
What is parallelisms.
400
Sentences that begin with the main idea and then expand on that idea with a series of other particulars.
What are cumulative sentences.
400
A balancing of two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses.
What is antithesis.
400
A series of words separated by commas with no conjunctions.
What is an asyndeton.
400
The central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer.
What is a thesis.
500
A construction in which one word governs two or more words in a sentence.
What is zeugma.
500
The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast.
What is antimetabole.
500
The repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row.
What is anaphora.
500
The arrangement of words as elements in a sentence to show their relationship.
What is syntax.
500
Sentences that place the main idea, or central complete thought, at the end of the sentence, after all introductory elements.