English Terms

• Metaphor

  Implied comparison between two things of unlike nature
• Simile

  Explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature, usually using “like” and “as”
• Personification

  Investing abstractions and inanimate objects with human qualities
• Hyperbole


  The use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect
• Irony

  Use of a word in such a way as to convey a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word
• Onomatopoeia

  Use of words whose sound echoes the sense
• Oxymoron

  The joining of two terms which are ordinary contradictory
• Logos

  In writing and speaking, a persuasive appeal to the audience based on logic and reason
• Paradox

  A apparently contradictory statement that nevertheless contains a measuring of truth
• Ethos

  In writing and speaking, a persuasive appeal to the audience based on the credibility, good character, etc., of the speaker/writer
• Pathos

  In writing and speaking, a persuasive appeal to the audience based on emotion
• Ellipsis

  deliberate omission of a word or of words
• Anaphoric

  Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginnings of successive phrases
• Parallelism

  Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
• Antithesis

  The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure
• Alliteration

  Repetition o initial or medical consonants in two or more adjacent words
• Assonance

  The repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed from different consonant, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words
• S.P.A.C.E.C.A.T

  S-Speaker

  P-Purpose

  A-Audience

  C-Context

  E-Exigence

  C-Choices

  A-Appeals

  T-Tone
• What should have Denise WON?

  Chick-fil-A