7221610382 | Pathos | Appeals to belief and feelings of higher emotion | 0 | |
7221655720 | Logos | Appeals to logical reasoning ability of readers | 1 | |
7221655721 | Ethos | Sense you give as being competent/fair/authority | 2 | |
7221655722 | Rhetorical Question | A question a speaker uses to provoke thought | 3 | |
7221610383 | Parallelism | Using the same gramatical structre or syntax repeatedly | 4 | |
7221610384 | Anecdote | A short personal story. Having the reader relate to the speaker. | 5 | |
7221618664 | Metaphor | A direct comparison that doesn't use comparison words | 6 | |
7221618665 | Simile | Comparison using comparison words | 7 | |
7221655723 | Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words | 8 | |
7221655724 | Hyperbole | Using exaggeration to make effect | 9 | |
7221655725 | Personification | Giving human or lifelike qualities to things that aren't | 10 | |
7221655726 | Allusion | Make reference to a well known person, place, or events | 11 | |
7221655727 | Tone | The feeling of emotions that an author communicates | 12 | |
7221655728 | Mood | Feeling that is created in the reader or listener by the authors words | 13 | |
7255001246 | Anaphora | The repetition of the same words or phase at the beginning of successive phrases or sentences | 14 | |
7255001247 | Diction | An authors choice of words, used to convey tone | 15 | |
7255001248 | Imagery | Use of words to appeal to the readers feeling | 16 | |
7266580262 | Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language | 17 |
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