Repetition of the initial consonant sounds beginning several words in sequence.
What is alliteration?
100
The White House asked the television networks for air time on Monday night.
What is metonymy?
100
The opposition or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction.
What is antithesis?
100
Logical means persuading by the use of reasoning.
What is logos?
200
Credibility, or ethical appeal, means convincing by the character of the author.
What is ethos?
200
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines.
We shall....
What is anaphora?
200
the ancient art of effective speaking, writing, and persuading.
What is rhetoric?
200
Apparent paradox achieved by the juxtaposition of words which seem to contradict one another.
What is oxymoron?
200
The repetition of the same vowel sounds in words close to each other.
What is assonance?
300
Using phrases which are similar in structure. Reinforces the message by setting up patterns.
What is parallelism?
300
An explicit comparison between two things using like or as.
What is simile?
300
Emotional means persuading by appealing to the reader's emotions.
What is pathos?
300
An argument or set of reasons put forward to oppose an idea or theory developed in another argument.
What is counterargument?
300
An attribution of personality to an impersonal thing.
What is personification?
400
The exaggeration for emphasis or for rhetorical effect.
What is hyperbole?
400
An implied comparison achieved through a figurative use of words; the word is used not in its literal sense, but in one comparable to it.
What is metaphor?
400
A reference to something real or fictional, to someone, some event, or something in the Bible, history, literature, or culture
What is allusion?
400
"In a democracy we are all equal before the law. In a dictatorship we are all equal before the police." (Fernandes)
What is parallelism?
500
"Hurts so good" (John Cougar Mellencamp)
What is oxymoron?
500
"Let us go forth to lead the land we love" (President J.F. Kennedy, Inaugural 1961)
What is alliteration?
500
"Not the human capacity for evil, but the human capacity for good. Not the desire to destroy, but the impulse to save, and to serve, and to build" (Barack Obama)
This is an example of?
500
Describing something indirectly by referring to one of its attributes.