All About Lit Terms
Techniques or language used to convey a point or convince an audience.
What is rhetoric?
Cranky; dour.
What is cantankerous?
An extreme exaggeration or claims that are not meant to be taking seriously.
What is a hyperbole?
Suffix meaning "rule" or "government."
What is -archy?
Credibility - appeals to conscience, morals, standards, values, and/or principles.
What is ethos?
Three persuasive forms of rhetoric.
What are ethos, pathos, and logos?
An oddity.
What is an anomaly?
Her eyes are like the stars.
What is simile?
Prefix meaning "before" or "forward."
What is pro-?
Two lines of a poem that has the same rhyme scheme.
What is a couplet?
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is alliteration?
Three.
What is tri-?
She is the moon.
What is metaphor?
Bewitch or charm.
What is enthrall?
Prefix for "together."
What is sym-?
Difficult situation or entanglement.
What is quagmire?
He was a ___________ old man, and no one wanted to be around him.
What is cantankerous?
A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.
What is a symbol?
He used __________ (ethos, logos, pathos) to try to persuade her to go out with him.
What is rhetoric?
An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
What is an allusion?
He made a(n) ____________ attempt to answer her question, but she knew he was not sincere.
What is unctuous?
She had a smile that could ______________ a snake.
What is enthrall?
Visually descriptive language using the five senses.
What is imagery?
He was stuck in the ______________ of his lies.
What is quagmire?
It was such a __________ of oil spilling that she thought it would be safe to go ahead and drive.
What is modicum?