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BONUS (Yellow Book)
100
A reference to a person, event or other work outside of the text.
What is Allusion
100
an intentional, usually obvious, exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole?
100
The use of a double negative to generate a positive understatement.
What is Litotes?
100
An author's choice of words
What is Diction?
200
the repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of successive words.
What is Alliteration?
200
resembles a rhetorical question in that it raises a question in the text, but follows the question with an answer.
What is Hypophora?
200
The direct comparison between two unike objects.
What is Metaphor?
200
Claims a series of intensifying consequences will inevitably follow a seemingly safe incedent.
What is Slippery Slope?
200
a word or phrase that links different ideas.
What is Transition?
300
the repetition of the same word of phrase at the beginning of series of clauses, or sentences.
What is Anaphora?
300
Speciic examples clafiry and illustrate the point being established.
What is Enumeratio?
300
the creating of a compound sentence, with or without coordinating conjunctions.
What is Parataxis?
300
Modifies the meaning of an entire sentence, often by a single word or short phrase.
What is Sentential Adverb?
300
the statement that is the sentence or group of sentences that directly express that author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or proposition.
What is Thesis?
400
A logical fallacy in which the asserted conclusion is based on a prior question that is onlt presumed settled.
What is Begging the Question?
400
Presents two alternatives that are not necessarily mutually exclusive as if they were.
What is False Dichotomy?
400
The use of similar word choice, syntax, and/or structure in successive parts of a sentence.
What is Parallelism?
400
Anticipates a reader's objections, addresses it, and then moves on with the writer's thesis.
What is Procatalepsis?
400
A mental picture that is conjured by specific words and associations.
What is Imagery?
500
A kind of inverted PARALLELISM; the structure or word order of two closely placed phrases or clauses is the reverse of each other.
What is Chiasmus?
500
A word or phrase is repeated at the end of succesive phrases, clauses, or sentences.
What is Epistrophe?
500
the inclusion of a conjunction before every item in a list or series (except the first)
What is Polysyndeton?
500
Creates emphasis by repeating the same idea in a series.
What is Scesis Onomaton?
500
All uses of language that imply an imaginative comparison
What is Figurative Language?