My tongue is a dolphin passed out in an elevator.-- Jeffery McDaniel, "Dear America"
Metaphor
100
An appeal to emotion
What is Pathos?
100
Many mumbling mice are making midnight music in the moonlight. -- Dr.Seuss
Alliteration
100
An appeal to logic
What is Logos?
200
A poetic structure of words to convey how something sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
And up in the nursery, an absurd little bird is popping out to say "Cuckoo" --The Sound of Music And up in the nursery, an absurd little bird is popping out to say "Cuckoo" --The Sound of Music
Onomatopoeia
200
A figure of speech that makes a comparison showing similarities between two different things. (like or as)
What is a simile?
200
Syntax or Diction
"Rain rattled against the windowpane like bullets"
"Rain clattered against the windowpane like applause"
Diction
200
When two contradictory words are together in one phrase.
What is an oxymoron?
300
Choice of words by a speaker
What is Diction?
300
What is this an appeal to?
"As a doctor, I am qualified to tell you that this course of treatment will likely generate the best results"
Ethos
300
extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
300
what is this an appeal to?
"If we don't move soon, we're all going to die"
Pathos
300
What is this an appeal to?
"You know me - I've taught Sunday school at your church for year"
Ethos
400
The repetition of a certain word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines in writing.
What is Anaphora?
400
The building was pretty ugly and a little big for its surroundings
Oxymoron
400
The way words or phrases are arranged
What is syntax?
400
The IRS is auditing me? Great. All I need is a couple of suits arriving at my door
What is metonymy?
400
statement that contradicts itself
What is a paradox?
500
A word that is used to stand in for another word
What is metonymy?
500
Your backyard is a Garden of Eden.
What is Allusion?
500
Using the same pattern of words to show that two or more words are of equal importance
What is parallel structure?
500
The children were screaming and shouting in the fields.
“Screaming” and “shouting” appeal to our sense of hearing, or auditory sense.
What is Diction?
500
The children were screaming and shouting in the fields.
“Screaming” and “shouting” appeal to our sense of hearing, or auditory sense.