To think on death it is a misery,/ To think on life it is a vanity;/ To think on the world verily it is,/ To think that here man hath no perfect bliss.
What is anaphora?
100
I said "rare," not "raw." I've seen cows hurt worse than this get up and get well.
What is hyperbole?
100
But how can we expect to enjoy the scenery when the scenery consists entirely of garish billboards?
What is a rhetorical question?
100
If you fail your research paper, you will never have a career.
What is slippery slope?
100
A sentence whose main idea is at the end of the sentence.
What is a periodic sentence?
200
On his return he received medals, honors, treasures, titles, fame.
What is asyndeton?
200
Plan ahead: it wasn't raining when Noah built the ark
What is an allusion?
200
the dictionary meaning of a word
What is denotation?
200
appeal to emotion
What is pathos?
200
Ferocious dragons breathing fire and wicked sorcerers casting their spells do their harm by night in the forest of Darkness.
What is parallelism?
300
Henry Jameson, the boss of the operation, always wore a red baseball cap.
What is an appositive?
300
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, / With loads of learned lumber in his head . . . .--Alexander Pope
What is an oxymoron?
300
An argument consisting of a major premise, a minor premise and a conclusion.
What is a syllogism?
300
appeal to logic and reason
What is logos?
300
A sentence whose main idea comes at the beginning of the sentence, with phrases and clauses following to complement the main idea.
What is a loose sentence.
400
To err is human; to forgive, divine
What is antithesis?
400
Hitting that telephone pole certainly didn't do your car any good.
What is a litotes?
400
the feeling that the author/speaker has for his subject
What is mood? (will also accept tone)
400
appeal to the character and credibility of the speaker
What is ethos?
400
short, consice, witty statements
"an apple a day keeps the doctor away"
What is an aphorism?
500
Ask not what you can do for rhetoric, but what rhetoric can do for you.
What is antimetibole?
500
They read and studied and wrote and drilled. I laughed and played and talked and flunked.
What is polysyndeton?
500
Since your application was submitted before April 10th, it will be considered.
What is an enthymeme?
500
If you want to go to college, you'll stop looking at Facebook during class!
What is non sequitur?
500
Tell me not of your many perfections; of your great modesty tell me not either.