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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. Ashort account of an interesting or humorous incident - intended to illustrate or support some point
Anecdote
Conflict
Simile
Mood
2. Scholarly - academic writing that is difficult to understand
Homily
Setting
Pathos
Pedantic
3. 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.)
Irony
Ambiguity
Zeugma
Epiphany
4. Word choice
Situational Irony
Diction
Juxtaposition
Pathos
5. A play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but differ in meaning
Bathos
Point of attack
Pun
Flashback
6. A comparison between two dissimilar ideas or things
Analogy
Symbol
Eulogy
Rhetoric
7. Form of personification - speaking to an absent or dead person or object as if it is there
Verbal Irony
Apostrophe
Euphemism
Deductive Reasoning
8. Same beginning sound
Denotation
Analogy
Alliteration
Assonance
9. A numbered list
Thesis
Enumeration
Tone
Assonance
10. A word that represents a larger idea or concept
Zeugma
Symbol
Hyperbole
Situational Irony
11. A form of personification - only it is not a character in the story
Setting
Pathetic Fallacy
A Priori Reasoning
Subtext
12. Inanimate objects or abstract ideas given human characteristics
Subtext
Verbal Irony
Allegory
Personification
13. A conclusion drawn from presented details
Deductive Reasoning
Characterization
Personification
Inference
14. Where the audience knows more than the character
Dramatic Irony
Hyperbole
Jargon
Pathetic Fallacy
15. A part is used to represent the whole (crown=king)
Deductive Reasoning
Synecdoche
Dramatic Irony
Characterization
16. Words that create mental pictures
Antithesis
Cliche
Imagery
Thesis
17. Emotional response of the reader
Mood
Inference
Syllogism
Symbol
18. A comic imitation that ridicules the original. It can be mocking or gently humorous
Pun
Parody
Deductive Reasoning
Allegory
19. Making a situation seem less important or serious than it is
Onomatopoeia
Flashback
Connotation
Understatement
20. A formal argument that consists of a major premise - a minor one - and a conclusion
Logical Fallacy
Flashback
Syllogism
Parody
21. A story that operates on the symbolic level and teaches a lesson or moral
Point of attack
Parable
Inference
Rhetoric
22. A comparison using like or as
Foil
Anticlimax
Irony
Simile
23. The recreation of regional spoken language
Chiasmus
Dialect
Hyperbole
Syntax
24. Choices a character makes in relation to an obstacle (problem)
Tone
Conflict
Didactic
Foil
25. A particularly clever extended metaphor
Rhetoric
Conceit
Denotation
Parable
26. A conclusion that can be arrived at without any observations of the world - but relies only on logical connections between ideas
Pathetic Fallacy
Understatement
Syntax
A Priori Reasoning
27. Clues that tip the reader off as to What is to come later in the work
Inference
Enumeration
Foreshadowing
Jargon
28. Point of understanding or awakening (not necessarily emotional)
Anticlimax
Climax
Personification
Chiasmus
29. A form a logic that moves from the specific to the general
Didactic
Exposition
Denotation
Inductive Reasoning
30. Reaching for the sublime - the tone results in the absurd
Archetype
Homily
Thesis
Bathos
31. The underlying message
Oxymoron
Diction
Theme
Flashback
32. Literary - historical - artistic reference
Allegory
Antithesis
Allusion
Point of attack
33. An overused expression
Repetition
Pathos
Foil
Cliche
34. A mistake in reasoning
Flashback
Logical Fallacy
Rhetorical Question
Conflict
35. A moment of great revelation
Epiphany
Ad Hominem
Jargon
Verbal Irony
36. A sermon or moralistic lecture
Metaphor
Homily
Enumeration
Analogy
37. Emotional definition of a word
Rhetoric
Exposition
Connotation
Homily
38. Direct contrast or opposite
Theme
Antithesis
Epitaph
Anecdote
39. Technical - specialized language
Symbol
Jargon
Epiphany
Ambiguity
40. A political comment through the use of humor
Epitaph
Homily
Exposition
Satire
41. A form of logic that moves from the general to the specific
Allusion
Deductive Reasoning
Denotation
Diction
42. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
Parable
Homily
Syllogism
Didactic
43. Word order or organization
Epitaph
Syntax
Allegory
Irony
44. Repetition of vowel sounds
Assonance
Ambiguity
Didactic
A Priori Reasoning
45. Deliberately unclear - having multiple meanings
Climax
Ambiguity
Epitaph
Antithesis
46. Exaggeration
Subtext
Antithesis
Epigraph
Hyperbole
47. When the reader expects a climax to occur and it doesn't happen
Pun
A Priori Reasoning
Exposition
Anticlimax
48. The 'unravelling' or resolution of the story - falling action
Logical Fallacy
Subtext
Symbol
Denouement
49. A rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea
Ad Hominem
Juxtaposition
Parody
Imagery
50. Same ending sounds
Juxtaposition
Subtext
Consonance
Parallelism