The cry of grief, rage, and terror, was yet piercing the night,
when the unhappy husband held his breath for a response. There
was a scream, drowned immediately in a louder murmur of voices,
fading into far-off laughter, as the dark cloud swept away, leaving
the clear and silent sky above Goodman Brown. But something
fluttered lightly down through the air, and caught on the branch of
a tree. The young man seized it, and beheld a pink ribbon.
"My Faith is gone!" cried he, after one stupefied moment.
"There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil! for
to thee is this world given."
A.Alliteration
B.Anaphora
C.Allusion
D.Allegory
Allegory
A third-person narrator who only reports what
would be visible to the audience; thoughts and
feelings are only revealed if a character speaks
them
A. Stream of consciousness narrator
B. First-person narrator
C. Limited omniscient narrator
D.Objective narrator
Objective narrator
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your
ears" - Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
A.Metaphor
B.Simile
C.Synecdoche
D.Anachronism
Synecdoche
A short tale that teaches a moral
Parable
A rhetorical term for the listing of details
A.Simile
B.Metaphor
C.Enumeration
D.Juxtaposition
Enumeration
“All animals are equal, but some are more
equal than others”.
“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate.
At small parties, there isn’t any privacy.”
A.Paradox
B.Onomatopoeia
C.Personification
D.Analogy
Paradox
It was not until Henry made the football team
that he realized what hard work it was going to
be.
A.Loose sentence
B.Periodic sentence
C.Anecdote
D.Idyll
Periodic
Sentence
An impersonal presentation of events and
characters
Objectivity
A brief tale used in medieval times to
illustrate a sermon or to teach a lesson
Exemplum
“God help me! I much fear that I have wrought.
A curse on mine own head, and knew it not.”
“Apollo, the Pure, the Far-smiter; O Three that
keep evil away. If of old for our city's desire.”
A.Caricature
B.Apostrophe
C.Allusion
D.Colloquialism
Apostrophe
A word or phrase used in everyday
conversation and informal writing but that is
often inappropriate in formal writing.
Colloquialism
“The wrath of God is like great waters that are
damned for the present; they increase more and
more, and rise higher and higher, till an outlet is
given; and the longer the stream is stopped, the
more rapid and mighty is its course when once it is
let loose.”—Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners in the
Hands of an Angry God”
A.Metaphor
B.Personification
C.Simile
D.Paradox
Simile
A type of literary work, such as a novel
or poem
Genre
“Yea, on the contrary, justice calls aloud for an
infinite punishment of their sins. Divine justice
says of the tree that brings forth such grapes
of Sodom.”—Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners in the
Hands of an Angry God”
A.Onomatopoeia
B.Persona
C.Personification
D.Imagery
Personification
“I once felt all that kind of anger, which a man
ought to feel, against the mean principles that
are held by the tories…Not a place upon earth
might be so happy as America. ”—Thomas
Paine, “An American Crisis
A.Ethos
B.Pathos
C.Logos
Pathos
The use of a hint or clue to suggest a
larger event that occurs later in the work
Foreshadowing
A rhetorical device that consists of repeating a
sequence of words at the end of successive
phrases, clauses or sentences to give them
emphasis
Epistrophe
“There was a remarkable intelligence in his
features, as of a person who had so cultivated
his mental part that it could not fail to mold
the physical to itself, and become manifest by
unmistakable tokens.”—The Scarlet Letter
A.Periodic Sentence
B.Loose Sentence
C.Imperative Sentence
D.Cumulative Structure
Loose Sentence
“These are the times that try men’s souls. The
summer solider and the sunshine patriot will,
in this crisis, shrink from the service of their
country; but he that stands it now, deserves
the love and thanks of man and woman.”—
Thomas, Paine, “An American Crisis”
A.Ethos
B.Pathos
C.Logos
Pathos
"It was not a mere man he was holding, but a
giant; or a block of granite. The pull was
unendurable. The pain unendurable.“--James
Ramsey, Banner in the Sky
A. Metaphor and Allusion
B. Hyperbole and Metaphor
C. Anaphora and Hyperbole
D.Assonance and Metaphor
Hyperbole and
Metaphor
So high is Mount Everest that climbers can take
only a couple of steps per minute as they near
the summit.
A.Parallel Structure
B.Inverted Structure
C.Paradox
D.Periodic Sentence
Inverted Structure
Stylistic device in which several coordinating
conjunctions are used in succession in order to
achieve an artistic effect
Polysyndeton
The main theme or subject of a work that is
elaborated on in the development of the piece;
a repeated pattern or idea
Motif
Descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a
specific feature of a person’s appearance or a
facet of personality
A.Caricature
B.Cacophony
C.Colloquialism
D.Consonance
Caricature
All nations and ages have been subject to them:
Britain has trembled like an ague at the report of a
French fleet of flat-bottomed boats; and in the
fourteenth century, the whole English army, after
ravaging the kingdom of France was driven back
like men petrified with fear, and this was
performed by a few broken forces and headed by a
woman, Joan of Arc.—Thomas Paine, “An American
Crisis”
A.Anaphora
B.Dissonance
C.Allusion
D.Metonymy
Allusion
"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we
shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with
growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we
shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we
shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing
grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.“-Winston Churchill, speech to the House of Commons
A.Anaphora
B.Epistrophe
C.Analogy
D.Hyperbole
Anaphora
The narrator, who is a character in the story
and relates the actions through is or her own
perspective, also revealing his or her own
thoughts
A. First-person narrator
B. Stream of consciousness narrator
C. Omniscient narrator
D.Limited omniscient narrator
First-person narrator
“…for when their day’s work in the field is done,
the most of them having their washing, mending
and cooking to do, and when this is done, old and
young, male and female, married and single, drop
down side by side on come common bed, each
covering himself or herself their miserable
blankets, and here they sleep till they are
summoned.” --Frederick Douglass, Narrative of
the Life of Frederick Douglass
A.Epigram
B.Parody
C.Antithesis
D.Enumeration
Enumeration
“But since I feel that you are men of genuine
good will and that your criticisms are sincerely
set forth, I want to try to answer your
statement in what I hope will be patient and
reasonable terms.” ---Martin Luther King,
“Letter from a Birmingham Jail
A.Ethos
B.Pathos
C.Logos
Ethos
A third-person narrator who reports the
thoughts of only one character and generally
only what one character sees
A.First-person narrator
B.Limited omniscient narrator
C.Omniscient narrator
D.Stream of consciousness narrator
Limited omniscient narrator
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it
was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it
was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of Light, it was the season of
Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter
of despair, we had everything before us, we had
nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven,
we were all going direct the other way…”—Charles
Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
A. Personification and Onomatopoeia
B. Juxtaposition and Alliteration
C. Colloquialism and Paradox
D.Paradox and Juxtaposition
Paradox and Juxtaposition
Such was our situation and condition at Fort Lee on the
morning of the 20th of November, when an officer
arrived with information that the enemy with 200 boats
lad landed about seven miles above: Major Green
immediately ordered them under arms, and sent
express to General Washington at the town of
Hackensack, distant bout six miles…” –Thomas Paine,
”An American Crisis”.
A.Ethos
B.Pathos
C.Logos
Logos
Presents a chronological sequence of steps that
explain how something is done, how
something happens, or how readers can do
something.
A.Process analysis
B.Description
C.Narration
D.Persuasion
Process analysis
Reversing the customary order of elements in a
sentence or phrase
Inversion
“For no government is better than the men who
compose it, and I want the best, and we need
the best, and we deserve the best.” - John F.
Kennedy
A.Syllogism
B.Juxtaposition
C.Epistrophe
D.Anaphora
Epistrophe
A figure of speech that uses the name of an
object, person, or idea to represent something
with which it is associated.
Metonymy
Instead of placing the reader inside the
character’s head like the first-person narrator,
this narrator gives the reader access to the
continuous, chaotic, flow of disconnected
thoughts and impressions in the character’s
mind
A. First-person narrator
B. Limited omniscient narrator
C. Omniscient narrator
D.Stream of consciousness narrator
Stream of consciousness narrator
The picturing in words of something or
someone through detailed observation of
color, motion, sound, taste, smell and touch
A.Narration
B.Persuasion
C.Process Analysis
D.Description
Description
Specific type of repetition; word phrase or
clause repeated at the beginning of two or
more sentences in a row
Anaphora
The omission or absence of a
conjunction between parts of a sentence.
Asyndeton
A third-person narrator, who is able to see into
each character’s mind and understands all the
action
A. First-person narrator
B. Limited omniscient narrator
C. Omniscient narrator
D.Stream of consciousness narrator
Omniscient narrator
"Cold; tempest; wild beasts in the forest. It is a
hard life. Their houses are built of logs, dark and
smoky within. There will be a crude icon of the
virgin behind a guttering candle, the leg of a pig
hung up to cure, a string of drying mushrooms. A
bed, a stool, a table. Harsh, brief, poor lives.”—
Angela Carter, “Wolves”
A.Polysyndeton
B.Asyndeton
C.Syllogism
D.Litotes
Asyndeton
A comparison of two similar but different
things usually to clarify an action or a
relationship
A.Allegory
B.Euphony
C.Cacophony
D.Analogy
Analogy
An instance of a form of reasoning in which a
conclusion is drawn from two given or assumed
propositions, each of which shares a term with the
conclusion, and shares a common or middle term
not present in the conclusion
Syllogism
I said, ‘Who killed him?’ and he said ‘I don’t know who
killed him, but he’s dead all right,’ and it was dark and
there was water standing in the street and no lights or
windows broke and boats all up in the town and trees
blown down and everything all blown and I got a skiff
and went out and found my boat where I had her inside
Mango Key and she was right only she was full of
water.—Ernest Hemmingway, “After the Storm”
A.Polysyndeton
B.Asyndeton
C.Syllogism
D.Litotes
Polysyndeton
“Any law that uplifts human personality is just.
Any law that degrades human personality is
unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust
because segregation distorts the soul and
damages the personality.”—Martin Luther King,
“Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
A.Polysyndeton
B.Asyndeton
C.Syllogism
D.Litotes
Syllogism