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Rhetoric Vocab
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logic-and-reasoning
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A detail - image - or character type that occurs frequently in myth and literature - thought to appeal to the unconscious
Climax
Characterization
Archetype
Syllogism
2. A story that operates on the symbolic level and teaches a lesson or moral
Personification
Synecdoche
Conflict
Parable
3. A conclusion drawn from presented details
Parody
Anecdote
Inference
Conceit
4. A comparison using like or as
Parable
Simile
Denouement
Rhetorical Question
5. The answer to a question
Analogy
Dramatic Irony
Thesis
Setting
6. The 'unravelling' or resolution of the story - falling action
Denouement
Pathetic Fallacy
Oratory
Parable
7. Where the audience knows more than the character
Point of attack
Dramatic Irony
Non Sequitur
Climax
8. Clues that tip the reader off as to What is to come later in the work
Motif
Deductive Reasoning
Foreshadowing
Tone
9. An inference that does not follow logically from the premise (literally - does not follow)
Non Sequitur
Figurative Language
Motif
Epiphany
10. Unexpected outcome in the plot
Colloquial
Rhetoric
Syntax
Situational Irony
11. Words - phrases - ideas placed side by side for effect
Simile
Juxtaposition
Paradox
Syllogism
12. Literary - historical - artistic reference
Allusion
Motif
Rhetorical Question
Antithesis
13. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
Non Sequitur
Inference
Didactic
Pathetic Fallacy
14. Form of personification - speaking to an absent or dead person or object as if it is there
Anecdote
Theme
Apostrophe
Mood
15. When the story begins
Point of attack
Synecdoche
Inference
Satire
16. A form of personification - only it is not a character in the story
Cliche
Pathetic Fallacy
Allusion
Inference
17. A comparison between two dissimilar ideas or things
Personification
Analogy
Assonance
Colloquial
18. A form a logic that moves from the specific to the general
Pathos
Inductive Reasoning
Rhetoric
Imagery
19. A conclusion that can be arrived at without any observations of the world - but relies only on logical connections between ideas
Syntax
A Priori Reasoning
Ambiguity
Synecdoche
20. Making something sound nicer than it is; candy-coated words
Understatement
Euphemism
Imagery
Cliche
21. Change and growth of the character
Epiphany
Bathos
Onomatopoeia
Characterization
22. A particularly clever extended metaphor
Pun
Parallelism
Tone
Conceit
23. A type of pun where the use of a word modifies two or more words - but used for different meanings (On the fishing trip - he caught three trout and a cold.)
Deductive Reasoning
Cliche
Enumeration
Zeugma
24. Scholarly - academic writing that is difficult to understand
Pedantic
Situational Irony
Theme
Parable
25. A question that does not expect an explicit answer
Rhetorical Question
Paradox
Alliteration
Subtext
26. A formal speech praising one who has died
Eulogy
Diction
Ambiguity
Controlling Metaphor
27. A rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea
Ad Hominem
Conceit
Anticlimax
Figurative Language
28. Emotional definition of a word
Anaphora
Connotation
Climax
Conceit
29. Point of understanding or awakening (not necessarily emotional)
Climax
Controlling Metaphor
Antithesis
Imagery
30. A political comment through the use of humor
Satire
Conflict
Flashback
Juxtaposition
31. An inscription on a tombstone
Cliche
Verbal Irony
Epitaph
Oratory
32. Direct contrast or opposite
Apostrophe
Antithesis
Inference
Alliteration
33. Exaggeration
Foil
Rhetoric
Hyperbole
Tone
34. Choices a character makes in relation to an obstacle (problem)
Characterization
Conflict
Jargon
Controlling Metaphor
35. Same beginning sound
Alliteration
Bathos
Characterization
Epitaph
36. Emotional response of the reader
Mood
Cliche
Logical Fallacy
Imagery
37. A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts - events - episodes
Repetition
Ambiguity
Flashback
Anaphora
38. The use of slang in writing
Parable
Understatement
Synecdoche
Colloquial
39. Word choice
Tone
Foil
Rhetoric
Diction
40. Sentences - or parts of a sentence with similar structure
Allegory
Sarcasm
Parallelism
Anaphora
41. Same ending sounds
Synecdoche
Consonance
Repetition
Point of attack
42. A form of logic that moves from the general to the specific
Theme
Eulogy
Deductive Reasoning
Conflict
43. A part is used to represent the whole (crown=king)
Zeugma
Synecdoche
Parody
Epiphany
44. A word that represents a larger idea or concept
Extended Metaphor
Epigraph
Symbol
Repetition
45. The underlying message
Theme
Climax
Ambiguity
Imagery
46. Saying one thing but meaning the opposite
Syllogism
Verbal Irony
Connotation
Epiphany
47. A comic imitation that ridicules the original. It can be mocking or gently humorous
Parody
Logical Fallacy
Cliche
Conflict
48. Technical - specialized language
Setting
Pun
Non Sequitur
Jargon
49. A formal argument that consists of a major premise - a minor one - and a conclusion
Syllogism
Thesis
Foil
Enumeration
50. Inanimate objects or abstract ideas given human characteristics
Zeugma
Denotation
Exposition
Personification