Miscellaneous
Rhetoric
Rhetoric Part 2
Elements of Lit
Grab Bag
100
Define the word - accurate.
You got it! Unless you didn't.
100
This is an appeal to logic
logos
100
"Who do you think you are?" is an example of which rhetorical device?
rhetorical question
100
A comparison using like or as
simile
100
Give an example of onomatopoeia
You got it! Unless you didn't.
200
Define the word - assumption
You got it, unless you didn't.
200
This is an appeal to emotion or feelings
pathos
200
Which type of irony is this?
verbal
200
A comparison NOT using like or as
metaphor
200
When the audience/reader knows something is about to occur, but the characters in the story do not it is called...
dramatic irony
300
Name a Transcendentalist writer
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
300
This is an appeal to ethics
ethos
300
"Oh, woeful, oh woeful, woeful, woeful day!"
--Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
This represents which rhetorical device?
repetition
300
This is an appeal to the 5 senses --sight, sound, taste, touch, smell
imagery
300
A twist, where something occurs in a story that is the opposite of what is expected is called...
situational irony
400
Name a writer or musician from the Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Duke Ellington
(many more correct answers as well)
400
This is a reference to a literary, biblical, or historic item that the reader is expected to know.
allusion
400
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
This represents which rhetorical device?
Parallelism
400
"Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." This is an example of...
an aphorism
400
What are some unique characteristics of Romanticism?
You got it! Unless you didn't.
500
Explain the Modernist influence and style
You got it! Unless you didn't.
500
This is a rhetorical device that uses similar/repeated grammatical structure
parallelism
500
This stanza of Robert Frosts "Birches" is an example of what type of rhetorical device?
I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree,
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
alliteration
500
What is assonance?
Assonance is a literary device in which the repetition of similar vowel sounds takes place in two or more words in proximity to each other within a line of poetry or prose. Assonance most often refers to the repetition of internal vowel sounds in words that do not end the same.
500
What is a political assumption?
a person's beliefs or thoughts about large universal issues in life