Not so literal
Language used for descriptive effect, in order to convey ideas or emotions beyond the literal level.
What is figurative language?
The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing.
What is rhetoric?
What is diction?
The "word pictures" that writes create to evoke an emotional response.
What is imagery?
A contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality.
What is irony?
A figure of speech using like or as to compare seemingly unlike things.
What is a simile?
Appeal to emotion.
What is pathos?
The suggested or implied meaning associated with a word beyond its dictionary definition.
What is connotation?
The central message or a work of literature that readers can apply to life.
What is theme?
The type of irony that exists when the actual outcome of a situation is the opposite of someone's expectations.
What is situational irony?
A figure of speech that compares or equates two seemingly unlike things.
What is a metaphor?
Appeal to logic.
What is logos?
The repetition of similar sounds at the beginnings of words.
What is alliteration?
Any object, person, place, or experience that exists on a literal level but also represents something else, usually something abstract.
What is symbolism?
The type of irony that exists when a person says one thing and means another.
What is verbal irony?
A figure of speech in which an animal, an object, a force of nature, or an idea is given human characteristics.
Appeal to authority/credibility.
What is ethos?
Informal speech that people use in everyday conversation.
What is colloquial language?
The emotional quality or atmosphere of a literary work.
What is mood?
The type of irony that occurs when the audience has more important information that the characters do not know.
What is dramatic irony?
A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, to make a point, or to evoke humor.
What is hyperbole?
A question to which no answer is expected, but is used to make the audience think.
What is a rhetorical question?
The use of a series of words, phrases, or sentences that have similar grammatical form.
What is parallelism?
A reflection of a writer or speaker's attitude toward the subject matter, as conveyed trough elements such as word choice, punctuation, sentence structure, and figures of speech
What is tone?
The type of irony at the end of Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour", when the narrator's husband, thought to be dead, arrives at the front door.
What is situational irony?