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Rhetoric Vocab
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Subject
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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Same beginning sound
Cliche
Satire
Alliteration
Syntax
2. The use of slang in writing
Colloquial
Pathos
Denotation
Parody
3. The 'unravelling' or resolution of the story - falling action
Denouement
Pathos
Connotation
Oxymoron
4. Events that take place before the story begins
Climax
Theme
Exposition
Juxtaposition
5. A comic imitation that ridicules the original. It can be mocking or gently humorous
Satire
Flashback
Analogy
Parody
6. A word that represents a larger idea or concept
Didactic
Alliteration
Symbol
Rhetorical Question
7. A sermon or moralistic lecture
Enumeration
Allusion
Homily
Extended Metaphor
8. Type of irony in which a person seems to be praising something but actually insulting
Anaphora
Ad Hominem
Sarcasm
Assonance
9. A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is reversed ('Susan walked - and in rushed Mary.')
Denotation
Rhetoric
Chiasmus
Pathetic Fallacy
10. A conclusion drawn from presented details
Subtext
Inference
Oxymoron
Diction
11. An inscription on a tombstone
Apostrophe
Epitaph
Characterization
Flashback
12. A direct comparison
Allusion
Metaphor
Subtext
Foil
13. The manipulation of words for a specific purpose
Irony
Rhetoric
Alliteration
Antithesis
14. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
A Priori Reasoning
Subtext
Allusion
Point of attack
15. Contrasting words placed together for effect
Oxymoron
Aphorism
Pedantic
Repetition
16. Same ending sounds
Consonance
Situational Irony
Dialect
Pathos
17. Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences
Eulogy
Climax
Juxtaposition
Anaphora
18. A comparison between two dissimilar ideas or things
Epiphany
Analogy
Colloquial
Thesis
19. A detail - image - or character type that occurs frequently in myth and literature - thought to appeal to the unconscious
Dramatic Irony
Pedantic
Irony
Archetype
20. The use of a quotation at the beginning of the work which often hints at a theme
Epigraph
Onomatopoeia
Verbal Irony
Logical Fallacy
21. Reaching for the sublime - the tone results in the absurd
Consonance
Flashback
Bathos
Cliche
22. Literary devices that enable an author to operate on levels other than the literal (simile - metaphor - etc)
Assonance
Thesis
Figurative Language
Aphorism
23. Word choice
Motif
A Priori Reasoning
Diction
Parody
24. Describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
Pathos
Metonymy
Repetition
Metaphor
25. Sound words - imitative harmony
Onomatopoeia
Exposition
Subtext
Situational Irony
26. Dictionary definition of a word
Denotation
Satire
Connotation
Cliche
27. A part is used to represent the whole (crown=king)
Subtext
Motif
Allusion
Synecdoche
28. A political comment through the use of humor
Anaphora
Satire
Flashback
Dramatic Irony
29. Emotional response of the reader
Flashback
Apostrophe
Mood
Controlling Metaphor
30. Time and place of a story
Setting
Irony
Subtext
Controlling Metaphor
31. Pattern; repeated image - symbol - idea
Jargon
Colloquial
Motif
Simile
32. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
Flashback
Inference
Didactic
A Priori Reasoning
33. An overused expression
Metaphor
Theme
Chiasmus
Cliche
34. Unexpected outcome in the plot
Antithesis
Synecdoche
Situational Irony
Consonance
35. Sentences - or parts of a sentence with similar structure
Inductive Reasoning
Assonance
Epigraph
Parallelism
36. A metaphor which changes and grows throughout the story
Extended Metaphor
Epitaph
Alliteration
Parallelism
37. An unexpected outcome
Subtext
Irony
Epitaph
Metonymy
38. A question that does not expect an explicit answer
Exposition
Enumeration
Diction
Rhetorical Question
39. Statement that contradicts itself - "the more you learn the less you know"
Paradox
Flashback
Epitaph
Theme
40. Direct contrast or opposite
Parallelism
Eulogy
Imagery
Antithesis
41. Exaggeration
A Priori Reasoning
Logical Fallacy
Epitaph
Hyperbole
42. A particularly clever extended metaphor
Ambiguity
Conceit
Euphemism
Diction
43. A moment of great revelation
Anaphora
Symbol
Inference
Epiphany
44. Technical - specialized language
Jargon
Metaphor
Allegory
Diction
45. A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts - events - episodes
Symbol
A Priori Reasoning
Flashback
Pedantic
46. Change and growth of the character
Tone
Characterization
Subtext
Dramatic Irony
47. A story that functions on the symbolic level
Allegory
Climax
Epigraph
Subtext
48. When the story begins
Apostrophe
Exposition
Point of attack
Conflict
49. A play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but differ in meaning
Pun
Situational Irony
Metaphor
Colloquial
50. A rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea
Foreshadowing
Ad Hominem
Alliteration
Anticlimax