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Diction
Essay
Syntax
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100
The implied meaning of a word.
What is the connotation?
100
Essay type in which you take a side and argue for it.
What is an argument essay?
100
The use of the same word or phrase multiple times.
What is repetition?
100
Placing two different ideas adjacent to one another to draw a contrast. Related to antithesis.
What is juxtaposition?
200
The feeling(s) perceived by the audience from the words.
What is the mood?
200
An essay in which you analyze the author's writing style.
What is a rhetorical analysis?
200
An explanation or afterthought inserted into a sentence, which would still be complete without this device.
What is parenthesis?
200
The repetition of a certain consonant sound. Related to assonance.
What is consonance?
300
The literal meaning of a word.
What is the denotation?
300
An essay in which you argue for a side using information from various sources.
What is a synthesis essay?
300
The inversion of the usual order of words or clauses.
What is anastrophe?
300
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of clauses or sentences. Related to epistrophe.
What is anaphora?
400
The feeling(s) the author conveys through diction.
What is the tone?
400
A short and usually interesting story that typically comes at the beginning of an essay.
What is an anecdote?
400
The use of similarly structured elements in sentences.
What is parallelism?
400
A device in which a part of something is used to represent the whole. Related to metonymy.
What is synecdoche?
500
The diction often used in everyday speech.
What is colloquial diction?
500
Regular or natural language; language that has no meter, unlike poetry.
What is prose?
500
A sentence in which the clauses are reverses of each other.
What is a chiasmus?
500
Implied connection to something well-known. Related to reference.
What is allusion?