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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. Inanimate objects or abstract ideas given human characteristics
Assonance
Juxtaposition
Syntax
Personification
2. A question that does not expect an explicit answer
Rhetorical Question
Controlling Metaphor
Epigraph
Enumeration
3. A play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but differ in meaning
Satire
Understatement
Pun
Homily
4. Describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
Dramatic Irony
Consonance
Thesis
Metonymy
5. Dictionary definition of a word
Denotation
A Priori Reasoning
Subtext
Verbal Irony
6. Emotional definition of a word
Connotation
Diction
Archetype
Didactic
7. The recreation of regional spoken language
Dialect
A Priori Reasoning
Thesis
Bathos
8. A form of logic that moves from the general to the specific
Point of attack
Foreshadowing
Deductive Reasoning
Aphorism
9. Direct contrast or opposite
Motif
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Antithesis
10. A short witty statement
Conceit
Aphorism
Allegory
Irony
11. Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences
Anaphora
Assonance
Conceit
Epigraph
12. A word that represents a larger idea or concept
Connotation
Mood
Symbol
Inductive Reasoning
13. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Oratory
Inference
Situational Irony
Subtext
14. A part is used to represent the whole (crown=king)
Controlling Metaphor
Archetype
Synecdoche
Euphemism
15. When the reader expects a climax to occur and it doesn't happen
Anticlimax
Simile
Parable
Personification
16. A metaphor which changes and grows throughout the story
Diction
Eulogy
Extended Metaphor
Anticlimax
17. Technical - specialized language
Jargon
A Priori Reasoning
Denouement
Allusion
18. A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts - events - episodes
Flashback
Consonance
Antithesis
Pathetic Fallacy
19. Literary devices that enable an author to operate on levels other than the literal (simile - metaphor - etc)
Pathetic Fallacy
Figurative Language
Paradox
Conflict
20. Character whose behavior and values contrast with those of another character
Foil
Eulogy
Parody
Thesis
21. Choices a character makes in relation to an obstacle (problem)
Anaphora
Motif
Parable
Conflict
22. Unexpected outcome in the plot
Motif
Allusion
Denouement
Situational Irony
23. An unexpected outcome
Denotation
Hyperbole
Irony
A Priori Reasoning
24. Same beginning sound
Antithesis
Point of attack
Inference
Alliteration
25. An inference that does not follow logically from the premise (literally - does not follow)
Non Sequitur
Foreshadowing
Metaphor
Consonance
26. A numbered list
Enumeration
Eulogy
Non Sequitur
Sarcasm
27. A conclusion that can be arrived at without any observations of the world - but relies only on logical connections between ideas
Chiasmus
Anticlimax
Denouement
A Priori Reasoning
28. Sentences - or parts of a sentence with similar structure
Theme
Parallelism
Thesis
Flashback
29. A form a logic that moves from the specific to the general
Subtext
Irony
Assonance
Inductive Reasoning
30. A rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea
Rhetoric
Subtext
Ad Hominem
Irony
31. Pattern; repeated image - symbol - idea
Epiphany
Motif
Metonymy
Ad Hominem
32. Words that create mental pictures
Imagery
Paradox
Figurative Language
Conceit
33. A direct comparison
Metaphor
Allegory
Inference
Foreshadowing
34. A particularly clever extended metaphor
Conceit
Allusion
Ambiguity
Tone
35. A mistake in reasoning
Ad Hominem
Pathos
Logical Fallacy
Epiphany
36. A conclusion drawn from presented details
Characterization
Inference
Syllogism
Onomatopoeia
37. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
A Priori Reasoning
Mood
Subtext
Paradox
38. The use of slang in writing
Exposition
Colloquial
Connotation
Mood
39. A moment of great revelation
Antithesis
Dramatic Irony
Syntax
Epiphany
40. The use of a quotation at the beginning of the work which often hints at a theme
Epitaph
Motif
Bathos
Epigraph
41. Statement that contradicts itself - "the more you learn the less you know"
Analogy
Archetype
Allusion
Paradox
42. A sermon or moralistic lecture
Homily
Oratory
Motif
Anticlimax
43. Words - phrases - ideas placed side by side for effect
Rhetoric
Colloquial
Juxtaposition
Metonymy
44. Scholarly - academic writing that is difficult to understand
Dialect
Climax
Oratory
Pedantic
45. The underlying message
Parody
Tone
Theme
Epiphany
46. Exaggeration
Foreshadowing
Juxtaposition
Anecdote
Hyperbole
47. A political comment through the use of humor
Satire
Understatement
Rhetorical Question
Zeugma
48. A formal - often pompous - speech
Foreshadowing
Allegory
Oratory
Conceit
49. A formal speech praising one who has died
Eulogy
Ambiguity
Pathos
Motif
50. A formal argument that consists of a major premise - a minor one - and a conclusion
Allegory
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Syllogism