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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. A particularly clever extended metaphor
Pun
Controlling Metaphor
Conceit
Verbal Irony
2. Inanimate objects or abstract ideas given human characteristics
Flashback
Motif
Thesis
Personification
3. Using the same word or phrase for emphasis
Paradox
Figurative Language
Repetition
Jargon
4. Same ending sounds
A Priori Reasoning
Euphemism
Consonance
Oxymoron
5. Dictionary definition of a word
Homily
Alliteration
Denotation
Repetition
6. Time and place of a story
Antithesis
Setting
Cliche
Verbal Irony
7. A political comment through the use of humor
Syllogism
Satire
Point of attack
Consonance
8. Making a situation seem less important or serious than it is
Understatement
Allusion
Denouement
Enumeration
9. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
Theme
Inference
Didactic
Metaphor
10. A sermon or moralistic lecture
Metonymy
Aphorism
Homily
Parallelism
11. A formal - often pompous - speech
Imagery
Oratory
Verbal Irony
Motif
12. A conclusion drawn from presented details
Inference
Metaphor
Consonance
Chiasmus
13. Direct contrast or opposite
Epitaph
Extended Metaphor
Antithesis
Connotation
14. A comparison using like or as
Simile
Hyperbole
Foreshadowing
Inference
15. Emotional definition of a word
Understatement
Allegory
Connotation
Imagery
16. Scholarly - academic writing that is difficult to understand
Juxtaposition
Exposition
Pedantic
Ambiguity
17. Words that create mental pictures
Metonymy
Imagery
Subtext
Analogy
18. A formal argument that consists of a major premise - a minor one - and a conclusion
Mood
Syllogism
Denouement
Rhetoric
19. The manipulation of words for a specific purpose
Motif
Enumeration
Homily
Rhetoric
20. Point of understanding or awakening (not necessarily emotional)
Sarcasm
Climax
Epitaph
Colloquial
21. An unexpected outcome
Aphorism
Irony
Non Sequitur
Juxtaposition
22. A rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea
Homily
Cliche
Ad Hominem
Synecdoche
23. Character whose behavior and values contrast with those of another character
Understatement
Oratory
Symbol
Foil
24. An inference that does not follow logically from the premise (literally - does not follow)
Epigraph
Non Sequitur
Rhetoric
Enumeration
25. Saying one thing but meaning the opposite
Verbal Irony
Dramatic Irony
Anecdote
Zeugma
26. Technical - specialized language
Mood
Synecdoche
Situational Irony
Jargon
27. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Exposition
Syntax
Ambiguity
Subtext
28. Words - phrases - ideas placed side by side for effect
Cliche
Juxtaposition
Inductive Reasoning
Alliteration
29. A question that does not expect an explicit answer
Assonance
Parallelism
Rhetorical Question
Allusion
30. A metaphor around which the entire story revolves
Conflict
Controlling Metaphor
Bathos
Epigraph
31. Statement that contradicts itself - "the more you learn the less you know"
Onomatopoeia
Ambiguity
Paradox
Subtext
32. Deliberately unclear - having multiple meanings
Subtext
Bathos
Dialect
Ambiguity
33. Word choice
Diction
Assonance
Cliche
Syntax
34. A comparison between two dissimilar ideas or things
Didactic
Analogy
Epiphany
Allusion
35. A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is reversed ('Susan walked - and in rushed Mary.')
Chiasmus
Hyperbole
Antithesis
Foreshadowing
36. The use of a quotation at the beginning of the work which often hints at a theme
Archetype
Eulogy
Jargon
Epigraph
37. A direct comparison
Syllogism
Epiphany
Conceit
Metaphor
38. A form of personification - only it is not a character in the story
Pathetic Fallacy
Diction
Oxymoron
Syllogism
39. A detail - image - or character type that occurs frequently in myth and literature - thought to appeal to the unconscious
Climax
Archetype
Imagery
Hyperbole
40. Ashort account of an interesting or humorous incident - intended to illustrate or support some point
Pathos
Sarcasm
Anecdote
Conceit
41. The answer to a question
Symbol
Epitaph
Thesis
Synecdoche
42. Direct contrast or opposite
Antithesis
Irony
Oxymoron
Apostrophe
43. When the story begins
Epiphany
Point of attack
Jargon
Homily
44. A formal speech praising one who has died
Imagery
Eulogy
Antithesis
Cliche
45. Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences
Mood
Anaphora
Non Sequitur
Sarcasm
46. A play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but differ in meaning
Juxtaposition
Oxymoron
Pun
Setting
47. A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts - events - episodes
Antithesis
Denotation
Extended Metaphor
Flashback
48. A conclusion that can be arrived at without any observations of the world - but relies only on logical connections between ideas
Eulogy
A Priori Reasoning
Satire
Denouement
49. The 'unravelling' or resolution of the story - falling action
Synecdoche
Rhetorical Question
Denouement
Pathetic Fallacy
50. Exaggeration
Irony
Dialect
Epigraph
Hyperbole