Rhetorical Devices
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RHETORICAL DEVICES
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Words which are inaccurate if interpreted literally, but are used to describe. Similes and metaphors are common forms.
What is figurative language?
100

The three author's purposes.

What is persuaded, inform, and entertain?

100

The 4 different types of love according to the bible

What are agape, eros, philia, storge

100

It is defined as the exact reputation of words at the beginning of phrases. ex: The I have a dream speech. 


Hint: In math it relates when two lines have the same slope. 

What is parallelism.

100

The person, place or thing in a sentence

What is a noun?

200
This rhetorical device involves two unlike things being compared using like or as. ex: Her hair was as red as fire.
What is a simile.
200

This type of noting while reading involves reading a text several times for different purposes, using notes and highlighting/underlining to keep track of main ideas and rhetorical devices.

What is a close reading. or annotation.

200

The author's feeling abut the subject that comes across in their writing

what is tone?

200

When the author tells us about a character's traits explicitly.

What is an direct characterization?

200

This rhetorical device that involves using logical information

What is logos?

300

The three main types of appeals (The Greek Please)

What is Ethos, Pathos, Logos

300
a question asked for an effect, and not actually requiring an answer.
What is a rhetorical question?
300

The parts of a plot

What are exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution.

300

This rhetorical device involves emotional appeals.

What is pathos?

300

The kind of device that uses clues to tell the reader what will happen next.

What is an foreshadowing?

400

Highly exaggerated language. For example: "That girl is as tall as a tree in the woods."

What is hyperbole?

400

A word that means the same as another or can be use interchangeably. 

What is a synonym?

400

This device describes something that happens unexpectedly or goes against the usual outcomes. 

What is irony?

400

This rhetorical device involves time and place.

What is setting?

400

This is an example of which device:

"The trees danced in the wind"

Personification

500

The dictionary definition or actual definition of a word or phrase.

Denotation

500

This rhetorical device involves using a credible source to persuade people.

What is ethos

500

The definition of rhetoric

What is persuasion?

500

an example of this device is... "Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune--without the words, And never stops at all,

What is an extended metaphor.

500

"Boom, bang, slap!" are examples of which device

What is onomatopoeia.