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What is direct address in rhetoric?
What is a rhetorical question?
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What is a rhetorical question?
A question you ask a baby
A question that requires no answer
A question that rhymes with its answer
A question that requires an answer
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What is direct address in rhetoric?
The speaker includes the audience by referring to them using "you" or "we"
The speaker goes out into the audience and lets them ask questions
The speaker speaks without a prepared manuscript
The speaker directs the message towards a certain group of people
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What is an adjective?
An action or being word
A connecting word
A word that describes a noun
A person, place, thing, or idea
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What is context?
The use of language to create certain effects when read or spoken aloud
A technique that authors use to achieve specific purposes in their writing
Expressions used for descriptive effects that are not literally true
Language that surrounds a word or text to help explain its meaning
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What or who is the SPEAKER in a poem?
A person who could be speaking/narrating the poem
The main character in the poem
The publisher of the poem
The poet who wrote the poem
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What is a literary allusion?
A movie reference in a poem
A reference to magic or a magician in a book
Referencing a work of literature in another work of literature
A magic trick about a book
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What is commentary?
Opinion or comment, analysis, feelings about the idea
Specific details: also facts, examples, or paraphrase
Facts in a poem
A middle stanza that develops the idea of a poem
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What is a symbol?
The arrangement of a poem on the page
A musical instrument
A group of poetic lines
An object/event/animal/person that represents something
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What is an Understatement?
Saying something is more important than it is
Saying something is less important than it is
Saing something is important
Figurative meaning is different from the literal meaning
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What is dramatic irony?
When the audience doesn't know something and the character doesn't
When the audience doesn't know something, but the character does
When the audience does know something but the character does
When the audience does know something but the character doesn't
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What is the shift in a poem most often used for?
To show change in feeling or lesson learned
To show that everyone feels differently about things
The author got bored and wanted to change things up a bit
To give the reader a different perspective
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What is consonance?
The repetition of a suffix
The repetition of a vowel sound within a phrase/sentence
The repetition of a consonant sound within a phrase/sentence
The repetition of a prefix
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What is a paradox?
Person, place, or thing
A comparison using "like" or "as"
Recurring element which appears frequently in literature
Expression that seems contradictory, reveals possible truth
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What is an apostrophe (in poetry)?
The running on of one line of poetry into the next line of poetry
The repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry
A punctuation mark to show possession
When an author speaks to an object, idea, or dead person as if present
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What is onomatopoeia?
When a word imitates a sound
Giving human characteristics to an inanimate object
When nature reflects the mood
Two things being placed near each other for effect
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What is enjambment?
The continuation of a sentence into the next line
The repetition of the first sound in a word within a line
A word sound
Sounds that are pleasant
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What is assonance?
Repetition of the same sounds usually at the beginning
The repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words
Repetition in a group of three to strengthen an idea
When the environment reflects the mood of the character or scene
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What is verbal irony?
The phrase's meaning is different or opposite from real meaning
An over-exaggeration
Giving human characteristics to non-human things
Use of descriptive words calling on any of the 5 senses
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What is imagery?
When a phrase's meaning is different from its literal expresssion
A word that imitates the sound it represents
Comparing 2 objects and saying one IS another
Use of descriptive words calling on any of the 5 senses
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What is metonymy?
Using a part of something to stand for the whole
A recurring or emerging idea in a work in literature
The use of words that are harsh or dissonant
An expression in which a related thing stands for the thing itself
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What is an alliteration?
When two or more words in a group begin with the same letter
The feelings a reader gets from the story
The central or dominating idea
The sequence of events in a story
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What is an oxymoron?
Two opposite words used together
Two words that sound the same
Two opposing ideas
Two ideas that make sense
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What is parallel structure?
An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal
The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing
Repetition of the same pattern of words or phrases within a sentence
The literal or primary meaning of a word
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What is personification?
The use of descriptive words calling on any of the 5 senses
When a phrase's meaning is different from its literal expression
Comparing 2 objects & saying one IS the other
Giving human characteristics to non-humans things
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What is hyperbole?
An over-exaggeration
Use of descriptive words calling on any of the 5 senses
Meaning of a phrase is different from its literal expression
Giving human characteristics to non-human things
