Stylistic / Rhetorical Devices

Question 1

ridiculing an idea

Answer 1

satire

Question 2

use of informal words / slang

Answer 2

colloquialism

Question 3

social pressure due to a majority

Answer 3

bandwagon effect

Question 4

side by side placement of contrasting ideas

Answer 4

juxtaposition

Question 5

A brief story or tale told by a character in a piece of literature

Answer 5

anecdote

Question 6

discreet intentional understatement

ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary

Answer 6

litotes

Question 7

reference to another text

Answer 7

intertextuality

Question 8

use of words related to a particular profession

Answer 8

jargon

Question 9

an extended metaphor

Answer 9

Allegory / Analogy

Question 10

provoke attention and excitement at the expense of accuracy - especially in journalism

Answer 10

sensationalism

Question 11

nice sounding words (long vowels, soft consonants)

Answer 11

euphony

Question 12

the way in which writers express attitudes towards their subject matter

Answer 12

modality

Question 13

when descriptions use one sense to describe another

Answer 13

synesthesia

Question 14

making a feature more prominent by moving it to the front

Answer 14

foregrounding

Question 15

casual reference

Answer 15

allusion

Question 16

intended for teaching or to teach a moral lesson

Answer 16

didactic

Question 17

Quote set at the beginning of a literary work or at its divisions to set the tone or suggest a theme.

Answer 17

epigraph

Question 18

more than one clear meaning, open to interpretation

Answer 18

ambiguity

Question 19

several words of the same theme/idea

Answer 19

semantic / lexical fields

Question 20

the meaning of words how we see it and associate it with the deeper meaning

Answer 20

connotations

Question 21

the authors intentions of the usage of words

Answer 21

pragmatics

Question 22

a word that sounds like the thing (e.g. bubbles)

Answer 22

onomatopoeia

Question 23

the occurrence of the same letter or sound beginning on connected words

Answer 23

alliteration

Question 24

the ending of the word sounding the same

Answer 24

rhyme or rhythm

Question 25

closing or suddenly releasing air from you mouth because of words

Answer 25

plosives

Question 26

little pauses between sentences to let the reader think about the text. They are sound.

Answer 26

punctuations

Question 27

a subtle, suggestive hidden remark or message.

Answer 27

innuendo

Question 28

double meaning

Answer 28

double entendre

Question 29

creating permission and influencing the viewer of the media

Answer 29

manufactured consent

Question 30

spin

Answer 30

a particular emphasis or bias, turing something into your favor

Question 31

a figure of balance in which two contrasting ideas are deliberately used in consecutive phrases or sentences.

• We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Answer 31

antithesis

Question 32

a deliberate understatement, i.e. the opposite of hyperbole.

Answer 32

meiosis