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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. Scholarly - academic writing that is difficult to understand
Syllogism
Aphorism
Verbal Irony
Pedantic
2. Sound words - imitative harmony
Foreshadowing
Onomatopoeia
Foil
Enumeration
3. An unexpected outcome
Simile
Epigraph
Irony
Foil
4. The answer to a question
Symbol
Consonance
Thesis
Syntax
5. Technical - specialized language
Irony
Hyperbole
Ambiguity
Jargon
6. When the reader expects a climax to occur and it doesn't happen
Didactic
Conceit
Syllogism
Anticlimax
7. Form of personification - speaking to an absent or dead person or object as if it is there
Epitaph
Antithesis
Apostrophe
Metonymy
8. Making something sound nicer than it is; candy-coated words
Connotation
Point of attack
Euphemism
Antithesis
9. A rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea
Ad Hominem
Parody
Aphorism
Alliteration
10. Words that create mental pictures
Extended Metaphor
Personification
Epitaph
Imagery
11. A story that operates on the symbolic level and teaches a lesson or moral
Parable
Anaphora
Pathetic Fallacy
Epiphany
12. Ashort account of an interesting or humorous incident - intended to illustrate or support some point
Cliche
Controlling Metaphor
Pedantic
Anecdote
13. Choices a character makes in relation to an obstacle (problem)
Foreshadowing
Dialect
Repetition
Conflict
14. Pattern; repeated image - symbol - idea
Motif
Parable
Enumeration
Flashback
15. When the story begins
Assonance
Simile
Point of attack
Motif
16. A mistake in reasoning
Verbal Irony
Metonymy
Logical Fallacy
Sarcasm
17. Character whose behavior and values contrast with those of another character
Foil
Jargon
Hyperbole
Anticlimax
18. Time and place of a story
Paradox
Controlling Metaphor
Setting
Flashback
19. A part is used to represent the whole (crown=king)
Symbol
Deductive Reasoning
Synecdoche
Cliche
20. Exaggeration
Subtext
Hyperbole
Cliche
Assonance
21. A formal argument that consists of a major premise - a minor one - and a conclusion
Syllogism
Ad Hominem
Apostrophe
Irony
22. The use of a quotation at the beginning of the work which often hints at a theme
Alliteration
Epigraph
Understatement
Ad Hominem
23. Direct contrast or opposite
Alliteration
Antithesis
Enumeration
Climax
24. Word order or organization
Syntax
Pedantic
Enumeration
Thesis
25. A moment of great revelation
Diction
Symbol
A Priori Reasoning
Epiphany
26. The underlying message
Theme
Dramatic Irony
Antithesis
Simile
27. 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
Allegory
Simile
28. A particularly clever extended metaphor
Thesis
Conceit
Denouement
Pun
29. A direct comparison
Metaphor
Anticlimax
Personification
Synecdoche
30. A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts - events - episodes
Flashback
Cliche
Denouement
Anticlimax
31. A detail - image - or character type that occurs frequently in myth and literature - thought to appeal to the unconscious
Satire
Archetype
Oratory
Exposition
32. Words - phrases - ideas placed side by side for effect
Juxtaposition
Oratory
Colloquial
Epiphany
33. Clues that tip the reader off as to What is to come later in the work
Figurative Language
Foreshadowing
Anaphora
Paradox
34. Attitude the narrator wants the reader to take toward a setting - character - or idea
Characterization
Tone
Zeugma
Syllogism
35. A short witty statement
Aphorism
Epitaph
Cliche
Pun
36. Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences
Anaphora
Epiphany
Allusion
Syntax
37. Same ending sounds
Consonance
Figurative Language
Conflict
Syllogism
38. Describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
Eulogy
Oratory
Characterization
Metonymy
39. A play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but differ in meaning
Pun
Subtext
Diction
Jargon
40. A formal - often pompous - speech
Characterization
Oratory
Personification
Hyperbole
41. A form of personification - only it is not a character in the story
Anaphora
Pathetic Fallacy
Alliteration
Extended Metaphor
42. Repetition of vowel sounds
Assonance
Juxtaposition
Archetype
Anaphora
43. A formal speech praising one who has died
Subtext
Eulogy
Mood
Climax
44. A form of logic that moves from the general to the specific
Jargon
Foil
Deductive Reasoning
Foreshadowing
45. A word that represents a larger idea or concept
Symbol
Situational Irony
Parable
Chiasmus
46. Point of understanding or awakening (not necessarily emotional)
Archetype
Allusion
Situational Irony
Climax
47. An inference that does not follow logically from the premise (literally - does not follow)
Non Sequitur
Anaphora
Rhetoric
Inductive Reasoning
48. The recreation of regional spoken language
Didactic
Dialect
Parallelism
Archetype
49. Change and growth of the character
Characterization
Parable
Pathos
Jargon
50. A comparison using like or as
Symbol
Logical Fallacy
Climax
Simile