How one paragraph relates to another, or how a single sentence works within a paragraph.
What is the Structure of a passage?
100
A comparison between two unlike things using like or as.
What is simile?
100
A specific category of literature.
What is genre?
100
To give human characteristics to something unhuman.
What is personification?
100
Words that form the sound of that word.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
A style of writing that includes many conjunctions.
EX: We lived and laughed and loved one another.
What is Polysyndeton?
200
A deliberate understatement.
What is litotes?
200
More words than necessary. "Beating around the bush."
What is circumlocution?
200
The speed of narration or dialogue.
What is pacing?
200
Smart sounding language that is really meaningless.
What is bombast?
300
The duplication, exact or approximate, of any element of language, such as sound, word phrase, clause, sentence or grammatical pattern.
What is repetition?
300
Refers to an idea or concept that is NOT physical.
What is abstract language?
300
A certain ovject tat belongs in a different time period.
EX: An airplane in an Egyptian Emperor movie.
What is an anachronism?
300
A statement that contradicts itself (circle of logic).
What is paradox?
300
Speech or writing that attacks, insults, or denounces a person, topic, or institution.
What is invective?
400
The thoughtful and careful choice of words.
What is diction?
400
Informal, conversational use of language.
What is colloquialism?
400
Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of a phrase.
EX: "Sam I am, Sam I am."
What is anadiplosis?
400
The lack of conjunctions in a sentence.
What is asyndeton?
400
Short analysis which describes the possible meanings and relationships of the words, images, and other small units that make up a poem.
What is explication?
500
One of the devices of repetition in which the same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginnings of two or more lines.
EX: It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
What is anaphora?
500
Figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole of something.
EX: All americans speak english.
What is synecdoche?
500
Sentence structures that are extraordinary, involved and complex.
What is permutation (syntactical)?
500
A sermon with a purpose.
What is a homily?
500
Stylistic device that can be defined as the repetition of phrases or words at the end of the clauses or sentences.