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Snazzy Snazzy SyntaxSyntax
Identifying Identifying ToneTone
Types of Types of ImageryImagery
Organizing Organizing SchemesSchemes
Figures Figures of Speechof Speech
Famous Famous QuotationsQuotations
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Restating an idea using the same or similar words
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What is repetition?
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“Troubles, everybody’s got”
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What is inversion/hyperbaton/
Anastrope?
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Punctuation used to join two independent clauses
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What is a semicolon?
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Punctuation used to interject a thought or give information
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What are dashes?
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Punctuation used to announce that something important will follow.
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What is a colon?
Identifying Tone 200Shug come over and she and Sofia hug. Shug say, Girl, you look like a good time, you do. That when I notice that Shug talk and act sometimes like a man. Men say stuff like that to women, Girl, you look like a good time. Women always talk about hair and health. How many babies living or dead, or got teef. Not about how some woman they hugging on look like a good time.
– Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Identifying Tone 200
What is wonder, veneration, or reverential?
Identifying Tone 400“It’s true. If you want to buy a spring suit, the choice selection occurs in February; a bathing suit, March; back-to-school clothes, July; a fur coat, August. Did I tell you about the week I gave in to a mad-Mitty desire to buy a bathing suit in August?” – Erma Bombeck
Identifying Tone 400
What is genial and satirical (not harshly
critical)?
Identifying Tone 600I perceived, as I read, how the collective white man had been actually nothing but a piratical opportunist who used Faustian machinations to make his own Christianity his initial wedge in criminal conquests. First, always “reigiously,” he branded “heathen” and “pagan” labels upon ancient non-white cultures and civilizations. The stage thus set, he then turned upon his non-white victims his weapons of war.” – Malcolm X
Identifying Tone 600
What is virulence or contempt?
Identifying Tone 800Everybody latched on to you during these trips, congressmen, businessmen, and directors and presidents of this and that. Every hotshot in town wanted to be next to the astronaut. For the first ten or fifteen minutes it was enough for them to breathe the same air you breathed and occupy the same space as your famous body. But then they began looking at you. . . And waiting. . . Watiting for what? Well, dummy! –waiting for you to say a few words! They wanted something Hot! If you were one of the seven greatest pilots and seven bravest men in America, then obviously, you must be fascinating to listen to.” --Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff.
Identifying Tone 800
What is spirited and conversational?
Identifying Tone 1000The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself. It is formed by a voluntary appropriation of fixed symbols to internal acts, to processes and results of imagination, the greater part of which have no place in the consciousness of uneducated man; though in civilized society, by imitation and passive remembrance of what they hear from their religious instructors and other superiors, the most uneducated share in the harvest which they neither sowed nor reaped.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
Identifying Tone 1000
What is condescending and patronizing?
Types of Imagery 200
The moon slowly passed over the sun
Types of Imagery 200
What is visual?
Types of Imagery 400
While watching the argument, our heads turned as if at a tennis match.
Types of Imagery 400
What is kinesthetic?
Types of Imagery 600
Hon, Honk, Honk, The gander alerted the flock for flight.
Types of Imagery 600
What is auditory?
Types of Imagery 800
The cinnamon scent of pumpkin pies at Thanksgiving makes me hungry.
Types of Imagery 800
What is olfactory?
Types of Imagery 1000
The warm vegetable soup tasted of a prodigious harvest.
Types of Imagery 1000
What is gustatory?
Organizing Schemes 200
“She sells sea shells by the sea shore.”
Organizing Schemes 200
What is alliteration?
Organizing Schemes 400
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people.”
Organizing Schemes 400
What is epistrophe?
Organizing Schemes 600
It can’t be wrong if it feels so right.
Organizing Schemes 600
What is antithesis?
Organizing Schemes 800
At Six Flags, you can see tigers, penguins, whales, dolphins, snakes, skates, rays.
Organizing Schemes 800
What is asyndeton?
Organizing Schemes 1000
She lost her wallet and her mind.
Organizing Schemes 1000
What is zeugma?
Figures of Speech 200
An elaborate or extended metaphor or simile
Figures of Speech 200
What is a conceit?
Figures of Speech 400
A less direct metaphor in which the comparison is not explicitly stated.
Figures of Speech 400
What is an implied metaphor?
Figures of Speech 600
A form of understatement, typically achieved by negating an affirmation. For example, “A fact of no small importance.”
Figures of Speech 600
What is litotes?
Figures of Speech 800
A statement that initially seems contradictory and nonsensical, but actually makes sense. For example, “We must fight for peace.”
Figures of Speech 800
What is a paradox?
Figures of Speech 1000
A confused, usually comic, misuse of a word or words.
Figures of Speech 1000
What is a malapropism?
Famous Quotations 200This novel begins, “124 was spiteful.”
Famous Quotations 200
What is Beloved?
Famous Quotations 400
To what specific event does the phrase, “the shot heard round the world” refer?
Famous Quotations 400
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
Famous Quotations 600
Where is the line “May the Force be with you” from?
Famous Quotations 600
What is Star Wars?
Famous Quotations 800
Who famously spoke, “Give me liberty, or give me death”?
Famous Quotations 800Who is Patrick Henry
Famous Quotations 1000
Who said, “I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country?”
Famous Quotations 1000
Who is Nathan Hale?