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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. Events that take place before the story begins
Colloquial
Cliche
Pathetic Fallacy
Exposition
2. An inference that does not follow logically from the premise (literally - does not follow)
Epigraph
Non Sequitur
Foreshadowing
Figurative Language
3. Inanimate objects or abstract ideas given human characteristics
Eulogy
Personification
Thesis
Imagery
4. Deliberately unclear - having multiple meanings
Pathetic Fallacy
Ambiguity
Syllogism
Extended Metaphor
5. Attitude the narrator wants the reader to take toward a setting - character - or idea
Metaphor
Inductive Reasoning
Tone
Analogy
6. Pattern; repeated image - symbol - idea
Motif
Controlling Metaphor
Epitaph
Foil
7. The underlying message
Assonance
Theme
Dramatic Irony
Jargon
8. When the reader expects a climax to occur and it doesn't happen
Epigraph
Anticlimax
Pun
Analogy
9. Word order or organization
Homily
Synecdoche
Colloquial
Syntax
10. An inscription on a tombstone
Simile
Epitaph
Enumeration
Dialect
11. A form of personification - only it is not a character in the story
Analogy
Inference
Pathetic Fallacy
Theme
12. Sound words - imitative harmony
Didactic
Onomatopoeia
Climax
Pathos
13. The 'unravelling' or resolution of the story - falling action
Epitaph
Dialect
Rhetorical Question
Denouement
14. A play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but differ in meaning
Pun
Paradox
Understatement
Satire
15. A direct comparison
Conceit
Metaphor
Parallelism
Situational Irony
16. The use of a quotation at the beginning of the work which often hints at a theme
Epigraph
Situational Irony
Thesis
Climax
17. Character whose behavior and values contrast with those of another character
Foil
Aphorism
Apostrophe
Satire
18. Direct contrast or opposite
Foreshadowing
Denotation
Tone
Antithesis
19. A political comment through the use of humor
Conflict
Metonymy
Satire
Epitaph
20. A word that represents a larger idea or concept
Colloquial
Archetype
Symbol
Setting
21. Saying one thing but meaning the opposite
Verbal Irony
Cliche
Climax
Didactic
22. A rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea
Ad Hominem
Logical Fallacy
Assonance
Jargon
23. Change and growth of the character
Repetition
Foreshadowing
Onomatopoeia
Characterization
24. A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is reversed ('Susan walked - and in rushed Mary.')
Chiasmus
Diction
Irony
Oxymoron
25. Ashort account of an interesting or humorous incident - intended to illustrate or support some point
Anecdote
Tone
Epitaph
Extended Metaphor
26. A detail - image - or character type that occurs frequently in myth and literature - thought to appeal to the unconscious
Extended Metaphor
Didactic
Archetype
Parable
27. Same beginning sound
Anecdote
Alliteration
Allegory
Simile
28. Words which evoke sorrow
Symbol
Pathos
Repetition
Zeugma
29. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
Pathos
Onomatopoeia
Didactic
Inference
30. A mistake in reasoning
Metonymy
Rhetoric
Setting
Logical Fallacy
31. Statement that contradicts itself - "the more you learn the less you know"
Pedantic
Parallelism
Paradox
Symbol
32. Technical - specialized language
Eulogy
Jargon
Non Sequitur
Verbal Irony
33. A formal argument that consists of a major premise - a minor one - and a conclusion
Denouement
Jargon
Simile
Syllogism
34. Repetition of vowel sounds
A Priori Reasoning
Colloquial
Homily
Assonance
35. Sentences - or parts of a sentence with similar structure
Parallelism
Pathos
Extended Metaphor
Parable
36. A story that operates on the symbolic level and teaches a lesson or moral
Parable
Rhetoric
Imagery
Didactic
37. Words - phrases - ideas placed side by side for effect
Conceit
Flashback
Juxtaposition
Conflict
38. An overused expression
Metonymy
Dialect
Cliche
Onomatopoeia
39. The manipulation of words for a specific purpose
Antithesis
Rhetoric
Parody
Denouement
40. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Pathos
Subtext
Colloquial
Rhetoric
41. A metaphor which changes and grows throughout the story
Extended Metaphor
Conceit
Subtext
Foil
42. Word choice
Diction
Cliche
Personification
Epigraph
43. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Subtext
Enumeration
Epiphany
Allusion
44. Dictionary definition of a word
Archetype
Zeugma
Denotation
Alliteration
45. The answer to a question
Thesis
Pun
Oratory
Point of attack
46. Same ending sounds
Foreshadowing
Consonance
Hyperbole
Thesis
47. A comic imitation that ridicules the original. It can be mocking or gently humorous
Logical Fallacy
Parody
Dialect
Epiphany
48. Contrasting words placed together for effect
Ambiguity
Oxymoron
Logical Fallacy
Parable
49. Clues that tip the reader off as to What is to come later in the work
Inference
Archetype
Euphemism
Foreshadowing
50. A comparison using like or as
Simile
Controlling Metaphor
Colloquial
Personification