Sound devices Flashcards
1
Q
Repetition of same sound at beginning of words (slowly slopped through the sludge)
A
Alliteration
2
Q
Repetition of word or phrase at begging of successive lines
A
Anaphora
3
Q
Informal words (ya’ll, ain’t, lit)
A
Colloquialism
4
Q
Language, people talking throughout text
A
Dialect
5
Q
Words to describe sounds (gushing stream, whispering voices, clacking of shoes)
A
Onomatopoeia
6
Q
Components of a sentence that are grammatically the same or similar in construction
A
Parallelism
7
Q
Two opposite ideas put together to create affect “it was the best times…it was the worst times”
A
Rhetorical/Persuasive:Antithesis
8
Q
Credibility in writers and sources
A
Ethos
9
Q
Logic is applied in writing
A
Logos
10
Q
Method of convincing people in an emotional respect
A
Pathos
