Category 1
Any stylistic device or resource of language that an author or speaker uses to help persuade or make a desired impact on his/her audience.
What is a rhetorical device?
a comparison using like or as
Combination of two words of opposite meaning for dramatic, comedic or provocative effect
What is an oxymoron?
Small crowd
What is an oxymoron?
A brief reference to a famous person or event
What is an allusion?
The repetition of words at the beginning of lines or phrases
What is an anaphora?
All the world's a stage
What is a metaphor?
"It was a tad bit nippy out today."
-Said by someone who was in 30 below zeros temps
What is an understatement?
A mild or pleasant word or phrase that is used instead of one that is unpleasant or offensive
The repeating of words or phrases to build a climax or add emphasis
What is repetition?
"I was helpless. I did not know what in the world to do. I was quaking from head to foot, and could have hung my hat on my eyes, they stuck out so far."
What is a hyperbole?
Time grows quickly
love is more thicker than forget
more thinner than recall
more seldom than a wave is wet
more frequent than to fail
(Will not accept repetition or anaphora for this answer)
What is parallelism?
Successive words, phrases, clauses, expressed with the same or very similar grammatical structure. (Ex: repeats pronoun, verb, adverb sequence in sentences)
What is parallelism?
appeal to emotion
“You are a manipulator.”
“I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.”
What is a euphemism?
Is it not crystal clear then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings?
What is a rhetorical question?
What is pathos?
Appeal to credibility
What is Ethos?
Appeal to logic
What is logos?
And that the government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
What is an epistrophe? Parallelism?
Chocolate cake is my Achilles' heel
What is allusion?
Most of the time Ricky ponders over his fate and often wonders about his luck.
What is juxtaposition?
Appeal to facts, figures, case studies, etc.
What is logos?
Appeal to someone who is trustworthy
What is Ethos?