It presents the main clause at the end of the sentence for emphasis and variety.
What is a periodic sentence?
100
A more acceptable and usually more pleasant way of saying something that might be inappropriate or uncomfortable.
What is a euphemism.
100
A representation of an idea through the use of an onject, person, or phrase.
What is symbolism?
100
Words that have the same meaning.
What is a synonym?
100
A device employed to serve as a basis for comparison. It is assumed that what applies to the parallel situation also applies to the original circumstance.
What is an analogy?
200
A repetition of words used at the beginning of two or more successive causes.
What is an anaphora?
200
Technical terminology.
What is jargon?
200
Where the meaning of a greater, often abstract, concept is conveyed with the aid of a more corporeal object or idea being used as an example.
What is an allegory?
200
A word used to replace a noun.
What is a pronoun?
200
The word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers.
What is an antecedent?
300
Formatting an formal argument into a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
What is syllogism?
300
Words that describe the entire body of words in a text – not isolated bits of diction.
What is language (in terms of SLIDD)?
300
A figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea.
What is metonymy?
300
A grammatical construction in which two elements,
What is an appositive?
300
The presentation of two contrasting images. The ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs.
What is antithesis?
400
The use of more words than necessary to express and idea.
What is circumlocution?
400
A verbally abusive attack.
What is inventive?
400
The step by step process wherein an author introduces and then describes a character.
What is characterization?
400
Wherein the writer embellished the sentence by adding more information to it in order to increase its worth and understandability.
What is amplification?
400
An understatement, esp. that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary.
What are litotes?
500
When a word is used at the end of a sentence then used again at the beginning of the next sentence.
What is anadiplosus?
500
The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.
What is vernacular?
500
A figure of speech that utlizes a part as representative of the whole.
What is synecdoche?
500
The act of lending a human quality, emotion, or ambition to a non-human object or being (often animals).
What is anthropomorphism?
500
The use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way