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Rhetoric Vocab
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logic-and-reasoning
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A form of personification - only it is not a character in the story
Consonance
Zeugma
Pathetic Fallacy
Homily
2. Type of irony in which a person seems to be praising something but actually insulting
Understatement
Sarcasm
Theme
Tone
3. The use of a quotation at the beginning of the work which often hints at a theme
Epigraph
Didactic
Paradox
Syllogism
4. Direct contrast or opposite
Motif
Antithesis
Rhetoric
Sarcasm
5. A formal - often pompous - speech
Pathetic Fallacy
Oratory
Epitaph
Deductive Reasoning
6. A comparison between two dissimilar ideas or things
Irony
Connotation
Analogy
Understatement
7. A story that functions on the symbolic level
Conceit
Controlling Metaphor
Analogy
Allegory
8. Pattern; repeated image - symbol - idea
Enumeration
Inference
Motif
Rhetorical Question
9. When the reader expects a climax to occur and it doesn't happen
Anticlimax
Situational Irony
Conceit
Extended Metaphor
10. A sermon or moralistic lecture
Homily
Enumeration
Metonymy
Alliteration
11. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Antithesis
Repetition
Chiasmus
Subtext
12. A mistake in reasoning
Logical Fallacy
Tone
Rhetorical Question
Dramatic Irony
13. Attitude the narrator wants the reader to take toward a setting - character - or idea
Flashback
Tone
Subtext
Logical Fallacy
14. Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Mood
Point of attack
15. A numbered list
Exposition
Connotation
Dramatic Irony
Enumeration
16. A political comment through the use of humor
Bathos
Satire
Verbal Irony
Ad Hominem
17. Events that take place before the story begins
Exposition
Subtext
Synecdoche
Pun
18. Technical - specialized language
Climax
Figurative Language
Jargon
Enumeration
19. Describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
Syntax
Metonymy
Parable
Point of attack
20. A particularly clever extended metaphor
Consonance
Personification
Conceit
Inductive Reasoning
21. The answer to a question
Sarcasm
Paradox
Understatement
Thesis
22. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
Thesis
Ad Hominem
Point of attack
Didactic
23. An inference that does not follow logically from the premise (literally - does not follow)
Alliteration
Non Sequitur
Juxtaposition
Sarcasm
24. A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts - events - episodes
Onomatopoeia
Figurative Language
Alliteration
Flashback
25. Unexpected outcome in the plot
Pathetic Fallacy
Situational Irony
Metaphor
Pedantic
26. A comic imitation that ridicules the original. It can be mocking or gently humorous
Syllogism
Parody
Metonymy
Foil
27. Sentences - or parts of a sentence with similar structure
Zeugma
Foil
Assonance
Parallelism
28. Character whose behavior and values contrast with those of another character
Understatement
Eulogy
Denotation
Foil
29. Deliberately unclear - having multiple meanings
Conflict
Analogy
Dramatic Irony
Ambiguity
30. Making something sound nicer than it is; candy-coated words
Colloquial
Euphemism
Pathetic Fallacy
Metaphor
31. Emotional definition of a word
Connotation
Personification
Paradox
Flashback
32. A word that represents a larger idea or concept
Symbol
Understatement
Pedantic
Exposition
33. An overused expression
Consonance
Cliche
Non Sequitur
Colloquial
34. Sound words - imitative harmony
Controlling Metaphor
Subtext
Onomatopoeia
Analogy
35. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Anticlimax
Subtext
Cliche
Metaphor
36. Time and place of a story
Setting
Inductive Reasoning
Climax
Ambiguity
37. Inanimate objects or abstract ideas given human characteristics
Personification
Didactic
Bathos
Allegory
38. A formal speech praising one who has died
Allusion
Setting
Eulogy
Extended Metaphor
39. Word choice
Extended Metaphor
Antithesis
Simile
Diction
40. Same ending sounds
Epigraph
Jargon
Non Sequitur
Consonance
41. A short witty statement
Inductive Reasoning
Figurative Language
Connotation
Aphorism
42. A form a logic that moves from the specific to the general
Inductive Reasoning
Subtext
Controlling Metaphor
Diction
43. A formal argument that consists of a major premise - a minor one - and a conclusion
Paradox
Parody
Metonymy
Syllogism
44. The use of slang in writing
Parallelism
Subtext
Colloquial
Diction
45. Reaching for the sublime - the tone results in the absurd
Bathos
Symbol
Logical Fallacy
Irony
46. Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences
Analogy
Conflict
Subtext
Anaphora
47. Ashort account of an interesting or humorous incident - intended to illustrate or support some point
Rhetorical Question
Theme
Repetition
Anecdote
48. Dictionary definition of a word
Pedantic
Tone
Denotation
Rhetorical Question
49. Repetition of vowel sounds
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
Ad Hominem
Connotation
50. The recreation of regional spoken language
Rhetorical Question
Dialect
Eulogy
Zeugma