¨For life's not a a paragraph and death, I think, is no parenthesis." What is this an example of?
What is litotes?
100
Jumbo shrimp is an example of
What is oxymoron?
100
A term that means morally smug.
What is philistine?
100
showing deep feeling
What is fervent?
200
I'm a pepper, youŕe a pepper, wouldn't you like to be a pepper,too?" This is an example of
What is epiphora?
200
A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected.
What is rhetorical question?
200
The store sells only new books
I bought Invisible Man at this store
Invisible Man is new
What is this an example of?
What is syllogism?
200
A word meaning "arrogant, stubborn assertion of opinion or belief.
What is dogmatic?
200
disrespectful or insolent.
What is impertinent?
300
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...¨ This is an example of:
What is antithesis?
300
A method of reasoning in which a rhetor collects a number of instances and forms a generalization that meant to apply to all instances.
What is inductive?
300
A paragraph to prose is _______ to poetry
What is stanza?
300
serving to expound, set forth, or explain.
What is expository?
300
gloomy or dismal
What is sullen?
400
¨I used to have a teacher I liked who used to say that good fiction's job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." What is this technique?
What is chiasmus?
400
A figure of speech i which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as crown for royalty)
What is metonymy?
400
The arrangement of words in a sentence.
What is syntax?
400
To form by combining parts or elements.
What is synthesis?
400
facial expression
What is countenance?
500
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for effect.
What is hyperbole?
500
Discourse that casts blame on something or somebody.