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| 8300912940 | Allusion | "Would Cicero have shone so distinguished an orator if he had not been roused, kindled, and inflamaed by the tyranny of Catiline, Verres, and Mark Anthony?" | 0 | |
| 8300912941 | Apostrophe | "Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not, and yet I see thee still." (Macbeth) | 1 | |
| 8300912942 | Aphorism | Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. | 2 | |
| 8300912943 | Balanced Sentence | "Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it." | 3 | |
| 8300912944 | Caricature | "Mr. Chadband is a large yellow man, with a fat smile, and a general appearance of having a good deal of train oil in his system. Mr. Chadband moves softly and cumbrously, not unlike a bear who has been taught to walk upright. He is very much embarrassed about the arms, as if they were inconvenient to him." |  | 4 |
| 8300912945 | Cliche | "Read between the lines." or "The calm before the storm." | 5 | |
| 8300912946 | Conceit | "A broken heart is a damaged china pot." | 6 | |
| 8300912947 | Anaphora | "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair." | 7 | |
| 8300912949 | Anecdote | When Mr. T tells stories in class about his experiences abroad and in the United States. | 8 | |
| 8300912948 | Epistrophe | "I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God." | 9 | |
| 8300912950 | Colloquialism | words or phrases like "gonna," "wanna," "go bananas" | 10 | |
| 8300912951 | Diction | How a house can be represented through various words like: hut, home, shack, mansion, or cabin. | 11 | |
| 8300912952 | Syntax | "What light from yonder window breaks?" instead of using a common expression "What light breaks from yonder window?" | 12 | |
| 8300912953 | Exposition | The beginning part of each chapter from Gladwell's Outliers. | 13 | |
| 8300912954 | Hyperbole | I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. | 14 | |
| 8300912955 | Imagery | When authors use sentences like: "The old man took the handful of dust, and sifted it through his fingers." or "The stone fell with a splash in the lake." | 15 | |
| 8300912956 | Soliloquy | "To be, or not to be? That is the question— Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune..." (Hamlet) | 16 | |
| 8300912957 | Irony | Paul Walker becoming famous for his movies about racing cars (Fast and Furious) and then dying in a car crash. | 17 | |
| 8300912958 | Verbal Irony | The CEO of a big tobacco company said he did not smoke. | 18 | |
| 8300912959 | Dramatic Irony | "Upon the murderer I invoke this curse - whether he is one man and all unknown, Or one of many - may he wear out his life in misery to miserable doom!" (Oedipus) | 19 | |
| 8300912960 | Situational Irony | "The marriage counselor files for divorce." or "The police station gets robbed." If these events happened in real life they would be examples of... | 20 | |
| 8300912961 | Onomatopoeia | words such as "Moo" or "Meow" or "Tweet" | 21 | |
| 8300912964 | Parody | The song "What does my Girl Say?" uses this effect by mimicking "What does the Fox Say?" | 22 | |
| 8300912965 | Alliteration | Sally sells seashells by the sea shore. | 23 | |
| 8300912966 | Assonance | I say that I play everyday but really I lay and watch the day pass away. | 24 | |
| 8300912967 | Pathos | Arguing for a phone and you say: "I need a phone because all of my friends have phones and I'll look like a loser without one." | 25 | |
| 8300912968 | Ethos | Arguing for a phone and you say: "I need a phone because I deserve one. I am a responsible student and a trustworthy son/daughter. I promise I'll still be the same when I get one." | 26 | |
| 8300912969 | Logos | Arguing for a phone and you say: "I need a phone because I am in sports and somedays practice after school may be cancelled so I'll need some way to tell you if you need to pick me up or not." | 27 | |
| 8300912970 | Metaphor | Phrases like: "Time is a thief" or "Your voice is music to my ears." | 28 | |
| 8300912971 | Simile | Phrases like: "As smooth as butter" or "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." | 29 | |
| 8300912972 | Pun | Phrases like: "A horse is a very stable animal" or "An elephant's opinion carries a lot of weight." | 30 | |
| 8300912973 | Warrant | If Queenie's husband fell down the stairs to break his head, then he fell down the stairs with enough force to shatter the glass in his hand. | 31 | |
| 8300912974 | Claim | I believe that Queenie killed her husband Arthur. | 32 | |
| 8300912975 | Evidence | We can see that Queenie killed her husband because of the glass in his hand. | 33 | |
| 8300912976 | Counterclaim | Some may say that the glass in Arthur's hand didn't shatter because the hand saved it. | 34 | |
| 8300912977 | Rebuttal | However, what they fail to consider is that even if the hand did cushion the glass, it still should not be in Arthur's hand as he would have let it go upon death. | 35 | |
| 8300912978 | Thesis | A statement such as: "Oedipus should be seen as honorable despite the outcome of his life for his achievements prior to his downfall and his ability to take accountability for his actions." | 36 | |
| 8300912980 | Periodic Sentence | "Renewable energy resources, like wind, solar, and geothermal, will be the answers to Earth's energy problems." | 37 | |
| 8300912981 | Persona | Text like this: "He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a fish the boy's parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unlucky." | 38 | |
| 8300912982 | Personification | The flowers danced in the gentle breeze. | 39 | |
| 8300912984 | Rhetoric | a technique of using language effectively and persuasively in spoken or written form. | 40 | |
| 8300912985 | Ridicule | A statement such as: "Evolution? Yes, I believe that my grandparents were monkeys - of course that makes sense." | 41 | |
| 8300912986 | sarcasm | A statement such as: "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." | 42 | |
| 8300912987 | Satire | A comedian saying, "If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." | 43 | |
| 8300912988 | synecdoche | The phrase "gray beard" refers to an old man or, The word "glasses" refers to spectacles. | 44 | |
| 8300912989 | Theme | A short example of this could be: "The space travelers were travelling to the moon, when their spaceship suddenly ran out of fuel. They were all frightened to learn that they wouldn't be able to return to Earth, and could only land on the moon." | 45 | |
| 8300912990 | Motif | The central idea of the co-existence of good and evil in Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mocking Bird" is supported the depiction of the small town life of Maycomb (where story is set). | 46 | |
| 8300912991 | Tone | A type of this word may be seen as sarcastic and displayed through conversations such as: Father: "We can't go on vacation this summer." Son: "Yeah, great! That's what I expected." | 47 | |
| 8300912992 | Anaphora | Something like: "My life is my purpose. My life is my goal. My life is my inspiration." | 48 | |
| 8300912993 | rhetorical question | "Why should we plant when there are so many Mongongo nuts in the world?" (Outliers, Chapter 8) | 49 | |
| 8300912994 | symbolism | Black represents death. Red represents passion or anger. White represents peace. These are all examples of what? | 50 | |
| 8300912995 | cacophony | "And being no stranger to the art of war, I have him a description of cannons, culverins, muskets, carabines, pistols, bullets, powder, swords, bayonets, battles, sieges, retreats, attacks, undermines, countermines, bombardments, sea-fights..." | 51 | |
| 8300912997 | erudite | When Presidents give "State of the Union" addresses, they will typically keep the speech with this type of tone. | 52 | |
| 8300912998 | Chiasmus | "Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live." (Sophocles). | 53 | |
| 8300912999 | Invective | "A knave, a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave ... and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch ..." (King Lear, Act 2, Scene 2 --Shakespeare) | 54 | |
| 8300913000 | metonymy | A sentence such as: "The pen is mightier than the sword." (Pens refer to written words and sword refers to military force). | 55 | |
| 8300913001 | Non-sequitur | Examples such as: "Maria drives a car. She must be a wealthy person." or "David eats broccoli. David should love to eat meat." | 56 | |
| 8300913002 | Elegiac | Speech such as: "O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! ..." | 57 | |
| 8300913003 | juxtaposition | When Gladwell compares The Beatles, to Bill Gates, to Bill Joy in Chapter 2 of Outliers. | 58 | |
| 8300913004 | syllogism | When we start with a general argument such as "All men are mortal," we know that "John is a man" so "John is mortal." | 59 | |
| 8300913005 | Tautology | When we say things like: ""Repeat that again," and "reiterate again." | 60 | |
| 8300913006 | pejorative | The word "Witch" is almost always _________________, whereas "wizard" is often a compliment." | 61 | |
| 8300913007 | understatement | "I have to have this operation. It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain." | 62 | |
| 8300913008 | Anadiplosis | "The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story!" | 63 | |
| 8300913009 | Hypophora | "What are you looking to find in a place like that? There's no one there but addicts and Arabs and pensioners." | 64 |
