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| an appeal based on emotion. |
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| an appeal based on logic. |
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| an appeal based on the character of the speaker (ethics). |
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| the practice of beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same sound (the twisting trout twinkled below) |
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| a reference to a mythological, literary or historical person place or thing. (he met his Waterloo) |
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| a direct juxtaposition of structurally parallel words, phrases or clauses for the purpose of contrast (sink or swim) |
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| a deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration (the shot heard 'round the world) |
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| comparison using like or as |
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| a form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into a single unusual expression (sweet sorrow, cold fire) |
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| comparison NOT using like or as |
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| Reasoning or explaining between two parallel causes. (writing a book is like dropping a rose petal into the grad canyon and waiting to hear the echo) |
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| A statement that appears to contradict itself. (War is peace, freedom is slavery, igonorance is strength) |
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| Intended to or inclined to instruct or to teach. |
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| Substitution of an inoffensive term (passed away) for one considered explicitly offensive (died) |
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| A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole, the whole for a part, the specific for the general, the general for the specific, or the material for the thing made from it. (all HANDS on deck, GENERAL MOTORS announce...) |
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A word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated
The White House asked the television networks for air time on Monday night.
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