Figurative Language
When something is something else. Example: The office is a bee-hive of activity on Mondays
Metaphor
Arrangement in order of increasing importance
Climax
When something is like something else
Simile
The position being taken in the argument
Claim
A word that describes a noun or pronoun.
Adjective
Personification
Giving human like qualities to inanimate objects
What is a scheme
Figures of speech that deal with word order, syntax, letters, and sounds, rather than the meaning of words.
Using contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense.
Oxymoron
What does ICE stand for.
Introduce, Cite, and Explain
A word that modifies or qualifies a verb. Answers the questions How? When? Where? Why?
What is figurative language
A type of language that does not use a words strict or realistic meaning
Parallelism
The writer establishes similar patterns of grammatical structure and length
Tropes
Tropes are figures of speech with an unexpected twist in the meaning of words.
Logos, Ethos, and Pathos
Logos appeals to the audience's reason. Ethos appeals to the speaker's status or authority. Pathos appeals to the emotions.
The -ing form of a verb that functions as a noun
Gerund
What type of figurative language uses questions
Rhetorial questions
Using many conjuctions to create an effect of speed or simplicity.
Asyndeton
Synecdoche
Using a part of a physical object to represent the whole object
The assumption on which the claim and the evidence depend.
Warrant
Clause
A group of related words containing a subject and a verb that may or may not be a complete thought
Allusion
A reference to a well-known person, character, place, or event that a writer makes to deepen the reader's understanding of their work
Changes in standard word order or pattern.
Asking a rhetorical question to the reader as a transition or as a thought provoking tool before proceeding.
Erotema
It's what you expect or think you know before you know
Assumption
A phrase that modifies the entire sentence.
Absolute Phrase