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Figurative Language
Rhetorical Terms
Rhetorical Terms Cont.
Argument Language
Other Key Terms
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This compares two things using the words “like” or “as.”
What is Simile?
100
This is explanatory notes added to a text to explain, cite sources, or give bibliographical data.
What is Annotations?
100
This is the characteristic emotion or attitude of an author toward the characters, subject, and audience.
What is Tone?
100
This is writing that attempts to prove the validity of a point of view or an idea by presenting reasoned arguments.
What is Argumentation?
100
This is the choice and use of words in speech or writing
What is Diction?
200
This compares two things without using the words "like" or "as."
What is a Metaphor?
200
This is the use of a hint or clue to suggest a larger event that occurs late in the work
What is Foreshadowing?
200
This is a situation or statement in which the actual outcome or meaning is opposite to what was expected.
What is Irony?
200
This is an argument that uses poor reasoning.
What is a Fallacy?
200
This is a shift in a narrative to an earlier event that interrupts the normal chronological development of a story.
What is a Flashback?
300
This is giving human characteristics to non-living things or ideas.
What is Personification?
300
This is the technique of arranging words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures by placing them side by side and making them similar in form.
What is Parallelism?
300
This is repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row.
What is Anaphora?
300
This is an attack on the person rather than on the opponent's ideas.
What is Ad Hominem?
300
This is a figure of speech in which a writer deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is.
What is an Understatement?
400
This is a poetic structure of words to convey how something sounds.
What is Onomatopoeia?
400
This is a statement that seems to contradict itself but that turns out to have a rational meaning.
What is a Paradox?
400
This is repetition of vowel sounds between different consonants.
What is Assonance?
400
This is language intended to convince through appeals to reason or emotion.
What is Persuasion?
400
This is a sentence structure in which a main clause is followed by subordinate phrases and clauses.
What is a Loose Sentence?
500
This is a description that is exaggerated for emphasis.
What is a Hyperbole?
500
This is a form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them.
What is Syllogism?
500
This is a figure of speech that uses the name of an object, person, or idea to represent something with which it is associated.
What is Metonymy?
500
This is when a writer tries to persuade the audience to respect and believe him or her based on a presentation of image of self through the text.
What is Ethical Appeal?
500
This is the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words although its use may be grammatically or logically correct with only one.
What is a Zeugma?