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Rhetoric Vocab
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logic-and-reasoning
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1. A political comment through the use of humor
Inference
Subtext
Synecdoche
Satire
2. When the reader expects a climax to occur and it doesn't happen
Dramatic Irony
Anticlimax
Antithesis
Pedantic
3. Attitude the narrator wants the reader to take toward a setting - character - or idea
Tone
Parable
Pun
Conceit
4. A word that represents a larger idea or concept
Metaphor
Syntax
Parable
Symbol
5. Emotional definition of a word
Metaphor
Connotation
Oratory
Inductive Reasoning
6. A story that operates on the symbolic level and teaches a lesson or moral
Antithesis
Parable
Parallelism
Subtext
7. Word choice
Diction
Verbal Irony
Hyperbole
Conceit
8. Where the audience knows more than the character
Dramatic Irony
Metonymy
Rhetoric
Figurative Language
9. Same ending sounds
Imagery
Ad Hominem
Consonance
Oratory
10. Same beginning sound
Didactic
Alliteration
Extended Metaphor
Parody
11. Direct contrast or opposite
Antithesis
Inductive Reasoning
Eulogy
Setting
12. A formal - often pompous - speech
Extended Metaphor
Theme
Oratory
Pedantic
13. The underlying message
Euphemism
Theme
Didactic
Exposition
14. A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is reversed ('Susan walked - and in rushed Mary.')
Epitaph
Exposition
Jargon
Chiasmus
15. Events that take place before the story begins
Analogy
Alliteration
Exposition
Dialect
16. Sound words - imitative harmony
Setting
Pathetic Fallacy
Satire
Onomatopoeia
17. A short witty statement
Aphorism
Point of attack
Figurative Language
Enumeration
18. Literary - historical - artistic reference
Inductive Reasoning
Figurative Language
Denotation
Allusion
19. An overused expression
Alliteration
Epigraph
Cliche
Metonymy
20. A comparison between two dissimilar ideas or things
Satire
Imagery
Subtext
Analogy
21. The 'unravelling' or resolution of the story - falling action
Pedantic
Inductive Reasoning
Climax
Denouement
22. A rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea
Chiasmus
Ad Hominem
Point of attack
Repetition
23. A particularly clever extended metaphor
Setting
Motif
Parallelism
Conceit
24. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Theme
Pathos
Subtext
Bathos
25. A play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but differ in meaning
Pun
Epigraph
Dramatic Irony
Point of attack
26. An inference that does not follow logically from the premise (literally - does not follow)
Motif
Non Sequitur
Simile
Hyperbole
27. The manipulation of words for a specific purpose
Pathos
Inductive Reasoning
Metaphor
Rhetoric
28. Time and place of a story
Setting
Parody
Pedantic
Didactic
29. A numbered list
Colloquial
Enumeration
Allegory
Chiasmus
30. The answer to a question
Allegory
Dramatic Irony
Thesis
Pathetic Fallacy
31. Words which evoke sorrow
Non Sequitur
Dramatic Irony
Anticlimax
Pathos
32. Technical - specialized language
Extended Metaphor
Chiasmus
Jargon
Ambiguity
33. Repetition of vowel sounds
Allusion
Allegory
Assonance
Eulogy
34. Form of personification - speaking to an absent or dead person or object as if it is there
Oxymoron
Apostrophe
Rhetoric
Metaphor
35. Inanimate objects or abstract ideas given human characteristics
Chiasmus
Metaphor
Personification
Epiphany
36. A moment of great revelation
Imagery
Juxtaposition
Epiphany
Syntax
37. Pattern; repeated image - symbol - idea
Zeugma
Anticlimax
Personification
Motif
38. Choices a character makes in relation to an obstacle (problem)
Syntax
Logical Fallacy
Conflict
Euphemism
39. A story that functions on the symbolic level
Repetition
Pun
Enumeration
Allegory
40. A detail - image - or character type that occurs frequently in myth and literature - thought to appeal to the unconscious
Dramatic Irony
Bathos
Rhetoric
Archetype
41. Direct contrast or opposite
Foil
Parody
Analogy
Antithesis
42. Making something sound nicer than it is; candy-coated words
Homily
Euphemism
Logical Fallacy
Theme
43. Scholarly - academic writing that is difficult to understand
Imagery
Denouement
Pedantic
Irony
44. A comic imitation that ridicules the original. It can be mocking or gently humorous
Parody
Consonance
Parallelism
Hyperbole
45. An inscription on a tombstone
Anecdote
Ambiguity
Consonance
Epitaph
46. A formal speech praising one who has died
Eulogy
Denouement
Tone
Zeugma
47. A metaphor around which the entire story revolves
Controlling Metaphor
Point of attack
Aphorism
Cliche
48. Contrasting words placed together for effect
Oxymoron
Alliteration
Connotation
Epigraph
49. Type of irony in which a person seems to be praising something but actually insulting
Theme
Zeugma
Understatement
Sarcasm
50. Character whose behavior and values contrast with those of another character
Mood
Analogy
Inference
Foil
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