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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. Literary devices that enable an author to operate on levels other than the literal (simile - metaphor - etc)
Antithesis
Simile
Allusion
Figurative Language
2. Scholarly - academic writing that is difficult to understand
Inductive Reasoning
Subtext
Allusion
Pedantic
3. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
A Priori Reasoning
Conflict
Allegory
Didactic
4. A question that does not expect an explicit answer
Pathos
Mood
Rhetorical Question
Parody
5. A formal - often pompous - speech
Oratory
Ad Hominem
Flashback
Cliche
6. A comparison between two dissimilar ideas or things
Understatement
Pun
Archetype
Analogy
7. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Exposition
Eulogy
Chiasmus
Subtext
8. Inanimate objects or abstract ideas given human characteristics
Allusion
Personification
Subtext
Epiphany
9. A part is used to represent the whole (crown=king)
Parable
Cliche
Synecdoche
Motif
10. Direct contrast or opposite
Tone
Antithesis
Personification
Onomatopoeia
11. Where the audience knows more than the character
Irony
Dramatic Irony
Alliteration
Anticlimax
12. A political comment through the use of humor
Symbol
Pun
Pedantic
Satire
13. A comic imitation that ridicules the original. It can be mocking or gently humorous
Parody
Metaphor
Tone
Assonance
14. Making something sound nicer than it is; candy-coated words
Climax
Euphemism
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
15. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Parody
Subtext
Eulogy
Onomatopoeia
16. Clues that tip the reader off as to What is to come later in the work
Foreshadowing
Denotation
Point of attack
Characterization
17. Contrasting words placed together for effect
Sarcasm
Oxymoron
Anticlimax
Deductive Reasoning
18. Attitude the narrator wants the reader to take toward a setting - character - or idea
Characterization
Apostrophe
Imagery
Tone
19. Form of personification - speaking to an absent or dead person or object as if it is there
Ambiguity
Subtext
Apostrophe
Situational Irony
20. Describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
Colloquial
Epigraph
Oratory
Metonymy
21. Word choice
Pun
Denouement
Diction
Anticlimax
22. An unexpected outcome
Irony
Oxymoron
Epigraph
Syllogism
23. A moment of great revelation
Epiphany
A Priori Reasoning
Oxymoron
Anaphora
24. The 'unravelling' or resolution of the story - falling action
Denouement
Subtext
Conceit
Setting
25. Dictionary definition of a word
Parable
Homily
Subtext
Denotation
26. Ashort account of an interesting or humorous incident - intended to illustrate or support some point
Anecdote
Oratory
Pathos
Conflict
27. The recreation of regional spoken language
Motif
Dialect
Allusion
Conflict
28. A mistake in reasoning
Theme
Logical Fallacy
Thesis
Consonance
29. Same beginning sound
Exposition
Alliteration
Non Sequitur
Rhetorical Question
30. Time and place of a story
Ad Hominem
Assonance
Setting
Euphemism
31. A story that functions on the symbolic level
Cliche
Irony
Epiphany
Allegory
32. Technical - specialized language
Theme
Zeugma
Ad Hominem
Jargon
33. Saying one thing but meaning the opposite
Metonymy
Verbal Irony
Dialect
Eulogy
34. Words that create mental pictures
Alliteration
Imagery
Parallelism
A Priori Reasoning
35. Type of irony in which a person seems to be praising something but actually insulting
Juxtaposition
Allusion
Euphemism
Sarcasm
36. A word that represents a larger idea or concept
Denouement
Metaphor
Jargon
Symbol
37. An inscription on a tombstone
Rhetorical Question
Conflict
Parallelism
Epitaph
38. Words - phrases - ideas placed side by side for effect
Rhetorical Question
Juxtaposition
Subtext
Pathetic Fallacy
39. The answer to a question
Thesis
Setting
Metonymy
Synecdoche
40. A rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea
Ad Hominem
Metaphor
Understatement
Characterization
41. Change and growth of the character
Euphemism
Subtext
Characterization
Anecdote
42. Events that take place before the story begins
Conceit
Eulogy
Theme
Exposition
43. A metaphor which changes and grows throughout the story
Extended Metaphor
Epiphany
Point of attack
Theme
44. Making a situation seem less important or serious than it is
Controlling Metaphor
Subtext
Connotation
Understatement
45. A detail - image - or character type that occurs frequently in myth and literature - thought to appeal to the unconscious
Epiphany
Euphemism
Archetype
Conceit
46. A comparison using like or as
Didactic
Simile
Parable
Rhetorical Question
47. Same ending sounds
Assonance
Anecdote
Consonance
Parable
48. Direct contrast or opposite
Antithesis
Anaphora
Assonance
Rhetoric
49. Character whose behavior and values contrast with those of another character
Rhetorical Question
Tone
Foil
Analogy
50. The manipulation of words for a specific purpose
Controlling Metaphor
Rhetoric
Pathos
Situational Irony