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Rhetoric Vocab
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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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1. A question that does not expect an explicit answer
Conflict
Rhetorical Question
Personification
Subtext
2. A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts - events - episodes
Flashback
Zeugma
Metaphor
Simile
3. Describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
Archetype
Diction
Metonymy
Understatement
4. The use of a quotation at the beginning of the work which often hints at a theme
Dramatic Irony
Pedantic
Epigraph
Satire
5. Pattern; repeated image - symbol - idea
Pun
Motif
Onomatopoeia
Pedantic
6. A numbered list
Alliteration
Diction
Thesis
Enumeration
7. A comparison between two dissimilar ideas or things
Conflict
Analogy
Simile
Extended Metaphor
8. Reaching for the sublime - the tone results in the absurd
Bathos
Thesis
Denotation
Enumeration
9. Same ending sounds
Consonance
Epiphany
Parody
Anaphora
10. Making a situation seem less important or serious than it is
Understatement
Metonymy
Tone
Denotation
11. A sermon or moralistic lecture
Homily
Satire
Parable
Bathos
12. A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is reversed ('Susan walked - and in rushed Mary.')
Tone
Subtext
Chiasmus
Epigraph
13. A formal argument that consists of a major premise - a minor one - and a conclusion
Syllogism
Climax
Bathos
Subtext
14. The 'unravelling' or resolution of the story - falling action
Allegory
Diction
Denouement
Parable
15. Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences
Anaphora
Chiasmus
Parable
Inference
16. Events that take place before the story begins
Connotation
Allegory
Exposition
Euphemism
17. Contrasting words placed together for effect
Epitaph
Oxymoron
Imagery
Parable
18. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
Metaphor
Oxymoron
Didactic
Subtext
19. A form of logic that moves from the general to the specific
Anecdote
Deductive Reasoning
Eulogy
Synecdoche
20. A play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but differ in meaning
Pun
Motif
Consonance
Rhetorical Question
21. Using the same word or phrase for emphasis
Subtext
Repetition
Verbal Irony
Eulogy
22. Literary devices that enable an author to operate on levels other than the literal (simile - metaphor - etc)
Figurative Language
Assonance
Mood
Irony
23. A short witty statement
Analogy
Inference
Aphorism
Enumeration
24. When the story begins
Parable
Dialect
Controlling Metaphor
Point of attack
25. An unexpected outcome
Situational Irony
Dramatic Irony
Understatement
Irony
26. Attitude the narrator wants the reader to take toward a setting - character - or idea
Tone
Dialect
Aphorism
Eulogy
27. Sound words - imitative harmony
Denouement
Simile
Aphorism
Onomatopoeia
28. A form of personification - only it is not a character in the story
Pathetic Fallacy
Enumeration
Epitaph
Epigraph
29. Words - phrases - ideas placed side by side for effect
Rhetorical Question
Antithesis
Juxtaposition
Assonance
30. When the reader expects a climax to occur and it doesn't happen
Anticlimax
Pedantic
Satire
Allegory
31. Exaggeration
Connotation
Hyperbole
Subtext
Subtext
32. The use of slang in writing
Symbol
Ambiguity
Oxymoron
Colloquial
33. Unexpected outcome in the plot
Situational Irony
Personification
Zeugma
Symbol
34. Clues that tip the reader off as to What is to come later in the work
Deductive Reasoning
Consonance
Inference
Foreshadowing
35. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Imagery
Subtext
Dialect
Anaphora
36. A part is used to represent the whole (crown=king)
Synecdoche
Deductive Reasoning
Exposition
Oxymoron
37. A type of pun where the use of a word modifies two or more words - but used for different meanings (On the fishing trip - he caught three trout and a cold.)
Imagery
Euphemism
Zeugma
Ambiguity
38. Saying one thing but meaning the opposite
Setting
Subtext
Point of attack
Verbal Irony
39. Where the audience knows more than the character
Connotation
Dramatic Irony
Antithesis
Bathos
40. Character whose behavior and values contrast with those of another character
Anticlimax
Pun
Allusion
Foil
41. Direct contrast or opposite
Rhetorical Question
Antithesis
Pathos
Satire
42. Type of irony in which a person seems to be praising something but actually insulting
Onomatopoeia
Connotation
Sarcasm
Mood
43. A formal speech praising one who has died
Eulogy
Point of attack
Anaphora
Pun
44. Point of understanding or awakening (not necessarily emotional)
Climax
Parable
Setting
Point of attack
45. Change and growth of the character
Characterization
Climax
Syllogism
Flashback
46. Same beginning sound
Pun
Inductive Reasoning
Antithesis
Alliteration
47. A story that operates on the symbolic level and teaches a lesson or moral
Parable
Epiphany
Setting
Antithesis
48. A formal - often pompous - speech
Assonance
Denotation
Oratory
Anecdote
49. A form a logic that moves from the specific to the general
Inductive Reasoning
Epiphany
Denotation
Cliche
50. Statement that contradicts itself - "the more you learn the less you know"
Sarcasm
Juxtaposition
Paradox
Consonance