Grammatically similar construction to create a sense of banlance that allows the audience to compare and contrast a subject
What is parallel structure?
100
This is a contrast or discrepancy between expectation and and reality.
What is irony?
100
The repetition of the initial consonant sound in a group of words, used here in the broadest sense.
What is alliteration?
100
When a writer or speaker poses a question to an audience/reader and does not expect an answer or does not intend to provide one.
What is a rhetorical question?
200
Saying one thing is the other; comparison between two things w/o using connective words;
What is metaphor?
200
The method a writer uses to narrate a story, such as first, third, omniscient.
What is point of view?
200
Occurs when the audience/reader says one thing but really means someting quite different--often just the opposite of what he/she said.
What is verbal irony?
200
An indirect reference to another idea, person, place, event, artwork, etc., to enhance the meaning of the work in which it appears.
What is allusion?
200
This is an exaggeration or overstatement to emphasize a point or to achieve a specific effect that can be serious, humorous, sarcastic or even ironic.
What is hyperbole?
300
Similar to a metaphor but uses two or more similarities in the comparison
What is an analogy?
300
The pattern of formation of sentences or phrases in a language.
What is syntax?
300
Occurs when the audience/reader knows something important that the character in a play/story does not know.
What is dramatic irony?
300
The repetiton of consonant sounds, such as, "They were the fir"st" that ever bur"st."
What is consonance?
300
This is a word that imitates the sound that is being made, an example is gulped.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
A type of metaphor that gives human attributes to subjects that are nonhuman, abstract and/or without life.
What is personification?
400
The final part of a play, movie, etc., in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.
What is denouement?
400
This is used in literature to describe or enhance sensory expriences in the text. Any of the five senses can be used, not just visual.
What is imagery?
400
This is an adjective or adjective phrase that an author uses to describe the perceived nature of a noun by accentuating one of its dominant characteristics.
What is epithet?
400
This is used for emphasis or affirmation, asserting a point by denying the opposite. Usually the word "not" or "never" will be a part of the sentence.
What is litotes?
500
When a writer employes this, he/she speaks directly to a personified object
What is apostrophe?
500
This is the presentation of two opposing ideas in a parallel manner.
What is antithesis?
500
Occurs when what happens is the opposite of what is expected or appropriate.
What is situational irony?
500
The reptetion of vowel sounds, such as in this example: "And the gr"ee"n fr"ee"dom of a cockatoo."
What is assonance?
500
This is a type of metaphor in which the actual subject is represented by an item which it is closely associated.