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Rhetoric Vocab
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logic-and-reasoning
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1. Technical - specialized language
Jargon
Alliteration
Verbal Irony
Controlling Metaphor
2. A formal speech praising one who has died
Eulogy
Inference
Denotation
Anaphora
3. Events that take place before the story begins
Archetype
Exposition
Analogy
Oratory
4. An inference that does not follow logically from the premise (literally - does not follow)
Irony
Consonance
Non Sequitur
Synecdoche
5. A numbered list
Enumeration
Epiphany
Setting
Ambiguity
6. Deliberately unclear - having multiple meanings
Cliche
Ambiguity
Bathos
Characterization
7. Sound words - imitative harmony
Allusion
Onomatopoeia
Pathetic Fallacy
Oratory
8. A form a logic that moves from the specific to the general
Dramatic Irony
Inductive Reasoning
Understatement
Archetype
9. A sermon or moralistic lecture
Analogy
Homily
Anaphora
Pun
10. A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts - events - episodes
Colloquial
Parable
Flashback
Zeugma
11. Making a situation seem less important or serious than it is
Foil
Rhetoric
Onomatopoeia
Understatement
12. The recreation of regional spoken language
Dialect
Flashback
Conceit
Assonance
13. When the reader expects a climax to occur and it doesn't happen
Rhetoric
Understatement
Mood
Anticlimax
14. Saying one thing but meaning the opposite
Verbal Irony
Characterization
Epigraph
Tone
15. The 'unravelling' or resolution of the story - falling action
Antithesis
Pedantic
Denouement
Oxymoron
16. Same ending sounds
Cliche
Dramatic Irony
Alliteration
Consonance
17. A part is used to represent the whole (crown=king)
Parallelism
Ad Hominem
Pathetic Fallacy
Synecdoche
18. A comic imitation that ridicules the original. It can be mocking or gently humorous
Parody
Pedantic
Antithesis
Extended Metaphor
19. Emotional response of the reader
Inductive Reasoning
Inference
Parable
Mood
20. Describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
Rhetoric
Archetype
Metonymy
Non Sequitur
21. Statement that contradicts itself - "the more you learn the less you know"
Parable
Dialect
Paradox
Ambiguity
22. Words which evoke sorrow
Dialect
Pathos
Metonymy
Hyperbole
23. An unexpected outcome
Irony
Pedantic
Enumeration
Bathos
24. Exaggeration
Situational Irony
Hyperbole
Setting
Metaphor
25. A metaphor around which the entire story revolves
Anecdote
Figurative Language
Denotation
Controlling Metaphor
26. Word order or organization
Euphemism
Juxtaposition
Syntax
Thesis
27. 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.)
Zeugma
Synecdoche
Antithesis
Inductive Reasoning
28. A conclusion drawn from presented details
Inference
Understatement
Anticlimax
Ad Hominem
29. Same beginning sound
Alliteration
Subtext
Metonymy
Subtext
30. A detail - image - or character type that occurs frequently in myth and literature - thought to appeal to the unconscious
Repetition
Personification
Archetype
Theme
31. A comparison using like or as
Conflict
Simile
Inductive Reasoning
Ambiguity
32. The underlying message
Theme
Assonance
Satire
Dialect
33. Ashort account of an interesting or humorous incident - intended to illustrate or support some point
Anecdote
Oratory
Logical Fallacy
Diction
34. Words - phrases - ideas placed side by side for effect
Metaphor
Pathos
Juxtaposition
Dialect
35. Where the audience knows more than the character
Homily
Denouement
Rhetoric
Dramatic Irony
36. A play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but differ in meaning
Dialect
Controlling Metaphor
Pun
Consonance
37. Time and place of a story
Exposition
Pathos
Pedantic
Setting
38. An overused expression
Homily
Parable
Cliche
Epigraph
39. The use of slang in writing
Colloquial
Onomatopoeia
Thesis
Controlling Metaphor
40. Emotional definition of a word
Consonance
Connotation
Subtext
Juxtaposition
41. Attitude the narrator wants the reader to take toward a setting - character - or idea
Verbal Irony
Logical Fallacy
Pun
Tone
42. Change and growth of the character
Anaphora
Characterization
Denotation
Synecdoche
43. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
Subtext
Situational Irony
Didactic
Rhetoric
44. A conclusion that can be arrived at without any observations of the world - but relies only on logical connections between ideas
A Priori Reasoning
Oxymoron
Inference
Connotation
45. A short witty statement
Juxtaposition
Homily
Aphorism
Anticlimax
46. Dictionary definition of a word
Denotation
Pathetic Fallacy
Verbal Irony
Foreshadowing
47. A comparison between two dissimilar ideas or things
Hyperbole
Dialect
Analogy
Connotation
48. Words that create mental pictures
Anticlimax
Controlling Metaphor
Imagery
Syllogism
49. A moment of great revelation
Cliche
Climax
Conceit
Epiphany
50. Literary - historical - artistic reference
Antithesis
Allusion
Satire
Epigraph
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