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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
Connotation
Sarcasm
Tone
Apostrophe
2. The recreation of regional spoken language
Eulogy
Colloquial
Dialect
Apostrophe
3. A play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but differ in meaning
Pun
Personification
Pathetic Fallacy
Non Sequitur
4. Direct contrast or opposite
Antithesis
Archetype
Connotation
Sarcasm
5. An unexpected outcome
Parody
Irony
Epiphany
Assonance
6. Emotional response of the reader
Anecdote
Paradox
Mood
Parallelism
7. A story that functions on the symbolic level
Controlling Metaphor
Denotation
Allegory
Pun
8. A form of personification - only it is not a character in the story
Situational Irony
Parable
Pathetic Fallacy
Satire
9. A formal speech praising one who has died
Eulogy
Verbal Irony
Allegory
Pathos
10. Making something sound nicer than it is; candy-coated words
Euphemism
Extended Metaphor
Homily
Rhetoric
11. Saying one thing but meaning the opposite
Repetition
Verbal Irony
Dialect
Tone
12. A question that does not expect an explicit answer
Inference
Rhetorical Question
Point of attack
Flashback
13. An overused expression
Parody
Parallelism
Cliche
Logical Fallacy
14. A conclusion drawn from presented details
Bathos
Inference
Onomatopoeia
Repetition
15. The answer to a question
Oxymoron
Thesis
Connotation
Foil
16. Reaching for the sublime - the tone results in the absurd
Bathos
Denouement
Foil
Ambiguity
17. Making a situation seem less important or serious than it is
Mood
Exposition
Understatement
Antithesis
18. A story that operates on the symbolic level and teaches a lesson or moral
Extended Metaphor
Figurative Language
Parable
Homily
19. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
Didactic
Simile
Assonance
Oxymoron
20. A rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea
Syllogism
Analogy
Ad Hominem
Imagery
21. A metaphor around which the entire story revolves
Syllogism
Dialect
Controlling Metaphor
Metonymy
22. Events that take place before the story begins
Exposition
Setting
Jargon
Theme
23. Describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
Juxtaposition
Homily
Metonymy
Figurative Language
24. The use of a quotation at the beginning of the work which often hints at a theme
Allegory
Motif
Epigraph
Denouement
25. Form of personification - speaking to an absent or dead person or object as if it is there
Anaphora
Assonance
Parody
Apostrophe
26. Literary devices that enable an author to operate on levels other than the literal (simile - metaphor - etc)
Setting
Epiphany
Figurative Language
Verbal Irony
27. When the story begins
Point of attack
Setting
Deductive Reasoning
Pedantic
28. A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts - events - episodes
Epigraph
Flashback
Enumeration
Paradox
29. A direct comparison
Metaphor
Epitaph
Theme
Pun
30. A comparison using like or as
Allegory
Conflict
Simile
Pathos
31. A short witty statement
Cliche
Aphorism
A Priori Reasoning
Sarcasm
32. A form of logic that moves from the general to the specific
Thesis
Symbol
Deductive Reasoning
Tone
33. A political comment through the use of humor
Connotation
Thesis
Satire
Antithesis
34. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Epigraph
Subtext
Parable
Zeugma
35. Ashort account of an interesting or humorous incident - intended to illustrate or support some point
Cliche
Epigraph
Exposition
Anecdote
36. A word that represents a larger idea or concept
Symbol
Tone
Archetype
Analogy
37. Clues that tip the reader off as to What is to come later in the work
Symbol
Personification
Foreshadowing
Ad Hominem
38. Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences
Pun
Anaphora
Onomatopoeia
Synecdoche
39. Choices a character makes in relation to an obstacle (problem)
Conflict
Characterization
Ambiguity
Allusion
40. Deliberately unclear - having multiple meanings
Logical Fallacy
Homily
Ambiguity
Anaphora
41. Words which evoke sorrow
Hyperbole
Pathos
Ambiguity
Inference
42. Using the same word or phrase for emphasis
Antithesis
Metonymy
Foreshadowing
Repetition
43. Pattern; repeated image - symbol - idea
Dialect
Metonymy
Controlling Metaphor
Motif
44. Unexpected outcome in the plot
Antithesis
Situational Irony
A Priori Reasoning
Dramatic Irony
45. Contrasting words placed together for effect
Epiphany
Euphemism
Oxymoron
Aphorism
46. Statement that contradicts itself - "the more you learn the less you know"
A Priori Reasoning
Paradox
Colloquial
Archetype
47. An inference that does not follow logically from the premise (literally - does not follow)
Oxymoron
Non Sequitur
Characterization
Epitaph
48. Words that create mental pictures
Anaphora
Imagery
Foil
Inference
49. A formal - often pompous - speech
Metaphor
Subtext
Oratory
Archetype
50. A comparison between two dissimilar ideas or things
Denotation
Analogy
Cliche
Pedantic