| 7354338637 | Epithet | an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.
Ex: "Death lies on her like an untimely forest. Upon the sweetest flower in the field." | | 0 |
| 7354354043 | Diction | the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.
Ex: "You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family" vs "They're certainly entitled to think that." | | 1 |
| 7354369591 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.
Ex: "I have to have this operation. It isn't very serious. I have this little tumor on the brain." | | 2 |
| 7354384380 | Euphemism | a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
Ex: "passed away" or "departed" instead of "died" | | 3 |
| 7354398258 | Hyperbaton | an inversion of the normal order of words, especially for the sake of emphasis
Ex: "Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall" | | 4 |
| 7354407430 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?" | | 5 |
| 7354414868 | Litotes | ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary
Ex: "I am not unaware..."
"You won't be sorry..." | | 6 |
| 7354425157 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable
Ex: "It is the east, and Juliet, the sun" | | 7 |
| 7354438799 | Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant
Ex: "Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears" | | 8 |
| 7354448611 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
Ex: "Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!" | | 9 |
| 7354458774 | Parallelism | the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc
Ex: "Good we must love, and must hate ill, for ill is ill, and good good still" | | 10 |
| 7354470879 | Pathos | a quality that evokes pity or sadness.
Ex: "He had meant the best in the world, and had been treated like a dog- a very dog. She would be sorry someday- maybe when it was too late" | | 11 |
| 7354481287 | Logos | Can be defined as a statement or argument used to convince or persuade the audience by employing reason or logic
Ex: "All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal" | | 12 |
| 7354497059 | Idiom | a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words
Ex: "raining cats and dogs"
"love is blind"
"actions speak louder than words" | | 13 |
| 7354508383 | Antimetabole/ chiasmus | rhetorical device in which a phrase or sentence is repeated, but in reverse order.
Ex: "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" | | 14 |
| 7354514902 | Schemes | figures of speech that deal with word order, syntax, letters, and sounds, rather than the meaning of words, which involves tropes.
Ex: rhyme scheme (haiku) | | 15 |
| 7354531190 | Tropes | a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression.
Consists in the use of a word or phrase in a sense other than that which is proper to
Ex: Hyperbole, irony, litotes, metaphor | | 16 |
| 7354541964 | Zeugma | a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses
Ex: "They covered themselves in dust and glory." | | 17 |
| 7354551989 | Asyndeton | the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence.
Ex: "I came, I saw, I conquered."
- leaving out "and" | | 18 |
| 7354558490 | Ethos | convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader
Ex: "Doctors all over the world recommend this type of treatment" | | 19 |
| 7354572289 | Pun | a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
Ex: "If they failed to point the conversation to me, every now and then, and stick the point into me" | | 20 |
| 7354584918 | Anadiplosis | repetition of a word or words in successive clauses in such a way that the second clause starts with the same word which marks the end of the previous clause.
Ex: "for Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime" | | 21 |
| 7354593259 | Allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
Ex: "The 2 knitting women increase his anxiety by gazing at him and all the other sailors with knowing concern" | | 22 |
| 7354604262 | Anaphora | The repetition of the same word or phrase in several successive clauses
"This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England" | | 23 |
| 7354616796 | Antithesis | a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other
Ex: "It was the best of times, and it was the worst of times" | | 24 |
| 7354635934 | Polysyndeton | stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect
Ex: "I said "who killed him?" and he said "I don't know" and it was dark and..." | | 25 |
| 7354648261 | Rhetorical question | a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.
Ex: "Will no one tell me what she sings?" | | 26 |
| 7354653868 | Simile | a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
Ex: "Shall I compare thee to a summers day?"
"Thou art more lovely and more temperate" | | 27 |
| 7354675639 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa,
Ex: "It is an ever-fixed mark (lighthouse) that looks on tempests and is never shaken" | | 28 |
| 7354690004 | Syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Ex: "What light from yonder window breaks" instead of "What light breaks from yonder window" | | 29 |
| 7354706899 | Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Ex: "when well-appareled April on the heel, of limping winter treads" | | 30 |
| 7354714475 | Aristotelian triangle | Ethos is an appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader.
Pathos is an appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response.
Logos is an appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason. | | 31 |
| 7354722543 | Conduplicatio | Figure of repetition in which the key word or words in one phrase, clause, or sentence is/are repeated at or very near the beginning of successive sentences, clauses, or phrases; repetition of a key word over successive phrases or clauses. Note: Compare with anadiplosis.
Ex: "Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the humanity of the human being." | | 32 |
