Literary and Rhetorical Terms

The sum of the choices an author have with figurative language, and other literary devices.

An emotionally violent verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language.

A brief story from which a lesson may be drawn.

What figure of speech addresses an Apostrophe?

Sensory details or figurative language used to describe emotion, or represent abstractions.

The fallacy of raising an irrelevant issue to draw attention away from the real issue.

Writing or speech not intended to convey literal meaning, usually imaginative and vivid.

A work that closely imitates the style of another with the specific aim of comic effects.

The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words and their relation to one another.

The fictional voice (or mask) that a writer adopts to tell a story.

A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them.

Referred to as parallel construction or structure, this terms means "beside one another."

A direct or indirect reference to something which is commonly known, as an events and books.

A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words.

Language describing ideas and qualities rather than specific things, people, or places.

A symbol is something concrete such as an object, character, action or scene.

The placement of elements, characters side by side for purposes of comparison and contrast.

A work of fiction or nonfiction is said to be related to central idea or principle.

One type of subject complement-an adjective, group of adjectives, or adjective clauses.

The part of an author to flow with thoughts in the human mind with its feelings and memories.

Describes the variety, the conventions, and the purposes of the major kinds of writing.

Similar to mood, describes the author's attitude toward his or her material.

Which point of view is this example displaying?

Sentence that uses and or another conjunction (with no commas) to separate the items.

What figure of speech is this ?

An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone.

Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a topic or issue.

A sensation produced in one sense when stimulus is applied to another with hearing a sound.

An argument against an idea, usually regarding philosophy, politics, or religion.

The relative speed or slowness with which a story is told or and idea is conveyed.

A figure of speech in which the author presents or concepts using objects with human values.

This figure of speech refers to the technique of human emotion to a concept, animal, or object.

A fallacy in which the opponent’s side is misrepresented in order to attack and refute it.

Words such as however, therefore, then and here are often used as what rhetoric term?

The quickness of intellect and the power and talent for saying brilliant things .

An organization of information using spatial cues such as top to bottom or left to right.

from the Greek, "to tear the flesh"

Qualities of a work that evoke pity or sorrow.

A more agreeable or less unpleasant substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept.

Which Literary term is being used in the example below?

The subject of the sentence by either (1) renaming it or (2) describing it.

Containing both a subject and a verb, but unlike the independent clause, unable to stand alone.

The quality of realism in a work that persuades the reader that a vision of life is real.

Which of these examples below displays a clause?

A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform.

A figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole thing.

The art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse.

What is an Anaphora?

To combine or bring together two or elements to produce something more complex.

A syntactical device in which one word modifies or controls two or more words in a sentence