Rhetorical Devices #4

Question 1

An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish

Answer 1

Pedantic

Question 2

A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end- “Ecstatic with my AP score, I let out a loud, joyful shout!”

Answer 2

Periodic Sentence

Question 3

A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions

Answer 3

Personification

Question 4

The deliberate and excessive use of conjunctions in successive words or clauses

Answer 4

Polysyndeton

Question 5

A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule

Answer 5

Parody

Question 6

The perspective from which a story is told

Answer 6

Point of View

Question 7

One type of subject complement is an adjective, group of adjectives, or adjective clause that follows a linking verb

Answer 7

Predicate Adjective

Question 8

A second type of subject complement - a noun, group of nouns, or noun clause that names the subject

Answer 8

Predicate Nominative

Question 9

One of the major divisions of genre, fiction and non-fiction

Answer 9

Prose

Question 10

The duplication, either exact or approximate, of any element of language, such as a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern

Answer 10

Repetition

Question 11

From the Greek for “orator,” this term describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively

Answer 11

Rhetoric

Question 12

The variety, the conventions, and purposes of the major kinds of writing

Answer 12

Rhetorical Mode

Question 13

A question that should receive no answer because because its answer is obvious or obviously desired

Answer 13

Rhetorical Question

Question 14

Bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something

Answer 14

Sarcasm