Poetic Devices
Repeated initial consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
Verbally delivered, usually to a group of people, can mark a significant time period, event, or topic
What is a speech?
Aristotelian appeals
What are pathos, ethos, and logos?
A question with an implied answer
What is a rhetorical question?
A Modest Proposal (to eat babies...)
Uses like, as, or as if to make a comparison
What is a simile?
Typed or handwritten, addressed to another person, can be familiar or formal depending on recipient
What is a letter?
Commercial for animal adoption accompanied by Sarah McLachlan's dulcet tones
What is pathos?
Figure of speech where a part is meant to represent the whole
What is synecdoche?
Always trust a glue salesman! They tend to stick to their word.
What is a pun?
Compares two disparate things, ideas, images, people, etc.
What is a metaphor?
Based on writer's personal experiences, can be focused around a theme or idea
What is a memoir?
"All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal."
What is logos?
Figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
What is oxymoron?
"up for grabs"
What is a colloquialism?
"end" and "send" or "cloud" and "loud"
What is rhyme?
Written work devoted to the systematic examination of a particular subject, usually philosophical or scientific
What is a treatise?
"As a three-time Olympic gold medalist, I can assure you that this energy drink will improve your sporting abilities..."
What is ethos?
Ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary
What is litotes?
Go big or go home!
What is anaphora?
Giving human characteristics to something nonhuman
What is personification?
What is a tweet?
See photo Mrs. Dittmer could not upload to this spot because she does not want to pay $20 for a membership
What is pathos (or my ruined childhood/loss of childhood innocence)?
The substitution of the name of an attribute for that of the thing meant
What is metonymy?
You're a chip off the old block, Harry!
What is an idiom?