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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. Emotional definition of a word
Subtext
Connotation
Synecdoche
Paradox
2. A formal speech praising one who has died
Epitaph
Parable
Eulogy
Oxymoron
3. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Juxtaposition
Subtext
Ad Hominem
Alliteration
4. Same beginning sound
Juxtaposition
Allusion
Foreshadowing
Alliteration
5. Words which evoke sorrow
Oratory
Pathos
Mood
Deductive Reasoning
6. A metaphor which changes and grows throughout the story
Denotation
Extended Metaphor
Climax
Denouement
7. A metaphor around which the entire story revolves
Apostrophe
Controlling Metaphor
Euphemism
Cliche
8. Point of understanding or awakening (not necessarily emotional)
Climax
Dramatic Irony
Cliche
Analogy
9. Change and growth of the character
Allusion
Characterization
Epitaph
Zeugma
10. A conclusion that can be arrived at without any observations of the world - but relies only on logical connections between ideas
Parody
Setting
A Priori Reasoning
Simile
11. The manipulation of words for a specific purpose
Rhetoric
Exposition
Flashback
Cliche
12. Sound words - imitative harmony
Onomatopoeia
Bathos
Rhetoric
Pun
13. Unexpected outcome in the plot
Enumeration
Situational Irony
Bathos
Anticlimax
14. A conclusion drawn from presented details
Analogy
Inference
Antithesis
Diction
15. A detail - image - or character type that occurs frequently in myth and literature - thought to appeal to the unconscious
Bathos
Archetype
Pathetic Fallacy
Analogy
16. Direct contrast or opposite
Extended Metaphor
Antithesis
Logical Fallacy
Epigraph
17. A question that does not expect an explicit answer
Rhetorical Question
Rhetoric
Antithesis
Conceit
18. Reaching for the sublime - the tone results in the absurd
Point of attack
Parody
Pedantic
Bathos
19. Type of irony in which a person seems to be praising something but actually insulting
Sarcasm
Dramatic Irony
Imagery
Motif
20. Contrasting words placed together for effect
Oxymoron
Mood
Epiphany
Ambiguity
21. The answer to a question
Thesis
Apostrophe
Ambiguity
Epiphany
22. Describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
Metonymy
Inference
Dramatic Irony
Irony
23. A sermon or moralistic lecture
Sarcasm
Dialect
Homily
Bathos
24. When the story begins
Foil
Antithesis
Rhetorical Question
Point of attack
25. A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts - events - episodes
Flashback
Connotation
Inductive Reasoning
Anaphora
26. Saying one thing but meaning the opposite
Verbal Irony
Cliche
Enumeration
Apostrophe
27. Choices a character makes in relation to an obstacle (problem)
Conceit
Conflict
Antithesis
Anticlimax
28. A short witty statement
Deductive Reasoning
Cliche
Aphorism
Climax
29. The use of a quotation at the beginning of the work which often hints at a theme
Epigraph
Anecdote
Controlling Metaphor
Assonance
30. A play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but differ in meaning
Imagery
Assonance
Pun
Ad Hominem
31. A particularly clever extended metaphor
Conceit
Figurative Language
Assonance
Homily
32. Making something sound nicer than it is; candy-coated words
Logical Fallacy
Euphemism
Chiasmus
Setting
33. Words that create mental pictures
Epigraph
Motif
Pathetic Fallacy
Imagery
34. Same ending sounds
Foil
Logical Fallacy
Denouement
Consonance
35. A comparison between two dissimilar ideas or things
Repetition
Anecdote
Analogy
Dramatic Irony
36. Exaggeration
Syntax
Anecdote
Hyperbole
Allusion
37. Time and place of a story
Setting
Rhetoric
Jargon
Figurative Language
38. When the reader expects a climax to occur and it doesn't happen
Anticlimax
Verbal Irony
Simile
Satire
39. Literary devices that enable an author to operate on levels other than the literal (simile - metaphor - etc)
Conceit
Parallelism
Situational Irony
Figurative Language
40. Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences
Apostrophe
Personification
Anaphora
Epitaph
41. A direct comparison
Denouement
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Pedantic
42. An unexpected outcome
Exposition
Colloquial
A Priori Reasoning
Irony
43. Clues that tip the reader off as to What is to come later in the work
Oxymoron
Foreshadowing
Syllogism
Tone
44. The recreation of regional spoken language
Analogy
Dialect
Parable
Enumeration
45. Words - phrases - ideas placed side by side for effect
Inductive Reasoning
Foreshadowing
Juxtaposition
Foil
46. Character whose behavior and values contrast with those of another character
Foil
Homily
Anecdote
Synecdoche
47. Deliberately unclear - having multiple meanings
Archetype
Figurative Language
Ambiguity
Onomatopoeia
48. A word that represents a larger idea or concept
Parody
Sarcasm
Homily
Symbol
49. An inscription on a tombstone
Zeugma
Epitaph
Diction
Ad Hominem
50. Literary - historical - artistic reference
Allusion
Apostrophe
Understatement
Enumeration