Review of Literary Terms and Concepts #1

__________________ means: two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.

• apposition

• antimetabole

• parallelism

• antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

________________ means: a repeated grammatical pattern

• anthimeria

• parallelism

• asyndeton

• antimetabole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote:

"We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne..."

• antithesis

• parallelism

• apposition

• epistrophe

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

What rhetorical device is used in the following quote: "Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love?"

• parallelism

• rhetorical question

• anthimeria

• antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

A reference in a work of literature to a character, place, or situation from history, music, or another work of literature.

• anaphora

• foreshadowing

• analogy

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

A comparison between two things [Simile/Metaphor/Personification]

• allusion

• analogy

• aphorism

• parallelism

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

A short pointed statement that expresses a wise or clever observation about the human experience. They are often metaphors.

• aphorism

• anecdote

• anaphora

• analogy

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

A reflection of a writer's or a speaker's attitude toward the subject matter.

• tone

• diction

• vernacular

• examples

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

The use of a series of words, phrases, or sentences that have similar grammatical form.

• anaphora

• analogy

• repetition

• parallelism

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

A question that is asked without expecting an answer.

• examples/facts/statistics

• persuasion

• rhetorical question

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.8.5