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Rhetoric Vocab
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logic-and-reasoning
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1. A comic imitation that ridicules the original. It can be mocking or gently humorous
Satire
Euphemism
Parody
Personification
2. Repetition of vowel sounds
Subtext
Controlling Metaphor
Epiphany
Assonance
3. A direct comparison
Analogy
Aphorism
Figurative Language
Metaphor
4. Reaching for the sublime - the tone results in the absurd
Inference
Ambiguity
Setting
Bathos
5. A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts - events - episodes
Flashback
Parody
Oxymoron
Deductive Reasoning
6. An inscription on a tombstone
Epitaph
Denotation
Anticlimax
Rhetorical Question
7. Literary - historical - artistic reference
Allusion
Anticlimax
Repetition
Alliteration
8. Sound words - imitative harmony
Parallelism
Onomatopoeia
Assonance
Flashback
9. Word order or organization
Controlling Metaphor
Syntax
Denouement
Antithesis
10. Deliberately unclear - having multiple meanings
Syllogism
Subtext
Zeugma
Ambiguity
11. The use of slang in writing
Characterization
Personification
Allusion
Colloquial
12. Events that take place before the story begins
Exposition
Assonance
Hyperbole
Antithesis
13. A sermon or moralistic lecture
Eulogy
Connotation
Foreshadowing
Homily
14. A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is reversed ('Susan walked - and in rushed Mary.')
Chiasmus
Pedantic
Logical Fallacy
Deductive Reasoning
15. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Metaphor
Flashback
Sarcasm
Subtext
16. Literary devices that enable an author to operate on levels other than the literal (simile - metaphor - etc)
Syntax
Dramatic Irony
Motif
Figurative Language
17. Same beginning sound
Antithesis
Extended Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
18. Choices a character makes in relation to an obstacle (problem)
Understatement
Conflict
Situational Irony
Subtext
19. Point of understanding or awakening (not necessarily emotional)
Personification
Climax
Imagery
Pathetic Fallacy
20. A comparison between two dissimilar ideas or things
Analogy
Connotation
Zeugma
Dramatic Irony
21. Word choice
Anecdote
Antithesis
Diction
Extended Metaphor
22. A formal speech praising one who has died
Eulogy
Subtext
Simile
Dramatic Irony
23. A short witty statement
Aphorism
Anecdote
Pathetic Fallacy
Antithesis
24. Pattern; repeated image - symbol - idea
Motif
Metaphor
A Priori Reasoning
Parallelism
25. Sentences - or parts of a sentence with similar structure
Synecdoche
Flashback
Parallelism
A Priori Reasoning
26. The recreation of regional spoken language
Understatement
Anecdote
Dialect
Flashback
27. A form of logic that moves from the general to the specific
Syntax
Extended Metaphor
Subtext
Deductive Reasoning
28. The use of a quotation at the beginning of the work which often hints at a theme
Epigraph
Eulogy
Conceit
Extended Metaphor
29. Where the audience knows more than the character
Dramatic Irony
Foreshadowing
Allegory
Rhetoric
30. A mistake in reasoning
Parody
Anaphora
Logical Fallacy
Motif
31. Type of irony in which a person seems to be praising something but actually insulting
Irony
Sarcasm
Epigraph
Connotation
32. An unexpected outcome
Deductive Reasoning
Situational Irony
Irony
Foreshadowing
33. Unexpected outcome in the plot
Foil
Situational Irony
Figurative Language
Deductive Reasoning
34. Time and place of a story
Setting
Rhetorical Question
Apostrophe
Imagery
35. A conclusion that can be arrived at without any observations of the world - but relies only on logical connections between ideas
A Priori Reasoning
Anticlimax
Synecdoche
Situational Irony
36. A story that operates on the symbolic level and teaches a lesson or moral
Imagery
Parable
Metonymy
Subtext
37. Exaggeration
Enumeration
Hyperbole
Subtext
Bathos
38. Scholarly - academic writing that is difficult to understand
Thesis
Subtext
Allegory
Pedantic
39. Emotional response of the reader
Point of attack
Mood
Eulogy
Homily
40. A formal - often pompous - speech
Oratory
Homily
Understatement
Antithesis
41. A rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea
Pathetic Fallacy
Epitaph
Ad Hominem
Hyperbole
42. A particularly clever extended metaphor
Conflict
Setting
Conceit
Deductive Reasoning
43. Statement that contradicts itself - "the more you learn the less you know"
Epitaph
Simile
Point of attack
Paradox
44. Making something sound nicer than it is; candy-coated words
Euphemism
Dramatic Irony
A Priori Reasoning
Juxtaposition
45. Ashort account of an interesting or humorous incident - intended to illustrate or support some point
Juxtaposition
Anecdote
Imagery
Oratory
46. When the reader expects a climax to occur and it doesn't happen
Anticlimax
Deductive Reasoning
Anaphora
Rhetoric
47. Change and growth of the character
Motif
Characterization
Allusion
A Priori Reasoning
48. Saying one thing but meaning the opposite
Foreshadowing
Colloquial
Verbal Irony
Chiasmus
49. A question that does not expect an explicit answer
Repetition
Antithesis
Rhetorical Question
Pathetic Fallacy
50. Contrasting words placed together for effect
Connotation
Dramatic Irony
Oxymoron
Paradox
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