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Rhetoric Vocab
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logic-and-reasoning
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1. Using the same word or phrase for emphasis
Conflict
Figurative Language
Repetition
Antithesis
2. A form a logic that moves from the specific to the general
Antithesis
Inductive Reasoning
Metonymy
Mood
3. Inanimate objects or abstract ideas given human characteristics
Parable
Situational Irony
Personification
Figurative Language
4. Reaching for the sublime - the tone results in the absurd
Antithesis
Pathetic Fallacy
Verbal Irony
Bathos
5. A story that operates on the symbolic level and teaches a lesson or moral
Conflict
Understatement
Hyperbole
Parable
6. A question that does not expect an explicit answer
Homily
Ambiguity
Rhetorical Question
Euphemism
7. Change and growth of the character
Parable
Characterization
Denouement
Onomatopoeia
8. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
Irony
Metaphor
Didactic
Pathos
9. Saying one thing but meaning the opposite
Climax
Verbal Irony
Syllogism
Diction
10. An unexpected outcome
Imagery
Pathetic Fallacy
Irony
Anecdote
11. A metaphor which changes and grows throughout the story
Extended Metaphor
Diction
Epitaph
Juxtaposition
12. Same ending sounds
Bathos
Oxymoron
Analogy
Consonance
13. Emotional response of the reader
Onomatopoeia
Thesis
Bathos
Mood
14. A moment of great revelation
Irony
Epiphany
Parody
Pathos
15. Technical - specialized language
Exposition
Colloquial
Jargon
Simile
16. A metaphor around which the entire story revolves
Extended Metaphor
Rhetoric
Controlling Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
17. Direct contrast or opposite
Verbal Irony
Exposition
Antithesis
Syllogism
18. A formal - often pompous - speech
Synecdoche
Oratory
Homily
Epitaph
19. Unexpected outcome in the plot
Paradox
Situational Irony
Understatement
Analogy
20. Dictionary definition of a word
Juxtaposition
Denotation
Enumeration
Deductive Reasoning
21. A mistake in reasoning
Logical Fallacy
Oratory
Conceit
Oxymoron
22. Statement that contradicts itself - "the more you learn the less you know"
Pathetic Fallacy
Paradox
Extended Metaphor
Apostrophe
23. The manipulation of words for a specific purpose
Eulogy
Rhetoric
Syllogism
Archetype
24. Point of understanding or awakening (not necessarily emotional)
Sarcasm
Metonymy
Hyperbole
Climax
25. A conclusion drawn from presented details
Inference
Paradox
Foreshadowing
Irony
26. The recreation of regional spoken language
Hyperbole
Dialect
Pathos
Euphemism
27. A particularly clever extended metaphor
Conceit
Rhetorical Question
Repetition
Logical Fallacy
28. A formal argument that consists of a major premise - a minor one - and a conclusion
Denotation
Syllogism
Anecdote
Colloquial
29. Time and place of a story
Apostrophe
Juxtaposition
Setting
Foil
30. Making something sound nicer than it is; candy-coated words
Foreshadowing
Euphemism
Ambiguity
Metonymy
31. The underlying message
Apostrophe
Oxymoron
Situational Irony
Theme
32. Contrasting words placed together for effect
A Priori Reasoning
Pathos
Situational Irony
Oxymoron
33. Words which evoke sorrow
Anaphora
Pathos
Antithesis
Jargon
34. Sound words - imitative harmony
Consonance
Onomatopoeia
Analogy
Assonance
35. Direct contrast or opposite
Foreshadowing
Figurative Language
Syllogism
Antithesis
36. Sentences - or parts of a sentence with similar structure
Antithesis
Parallelism
Point of attack
Denotation
37. An overused expression
Extended Metaphor
Zeugma
Metaphor
Cliche
38. A conclusion that can be arrived at without any observations of the world - but relies only on logical connections between ideas
Parallelism
A Priori Reasoning
Climax
Deductive Reasoning
39. Words that create mental pictures
Anecdote
Imagery
Inference
Allegory
40. Form of personification - speaking to an absent or dead person or object as if it is there
Personification
Foreshadowing
Non Sequitur
Apostrophe
41. A rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea
Consonance
Hyperbole
Logical Fallacy
Ad Hominem
42. Describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
Metonymy
Enumeration
Alliteration
Flashback
43. An inscription on a tombstone
Exposition
Personification
Allusion
Epitaph
44. Choices a character makes in relation to an obstacle (problem)
Sarcasm
Bathos
Non Sequitur
Conflict
45. When the reader expects a climax to occur and it doesn't happen
Pathos
Extended Metaphor
Antithesis
Anticlimax
46. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Oxymoron
Epigraph
Anaphora
Subtext
47. An inference that does not follow logically from the premise (literally - does not follow)
Eulogy
Oxymoron
Inference
Non Sequitur
48. The answer to a question
Alliteration
Symbol
Pathos
Thesis
49. Same beginning sound
Imagery
Alliteration
Flashback
Verbal Irony
50. A formal speech praising one who has died
Inference
Eulogy
Simile
A Priori Reasoning
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