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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. A formal - often pompous - speech
Alliteration
Assonance
Dialect
Oratory
2. A particularly clever extended metaphor
Conceit
Anaphora
Parody
Onomatopoeia
3. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
Didactic
Allusion
Synecdoche
A Priori Reasoning
4. Repetition of vowel sounds
Apostrophe
Antithesis
Assonance
Satire
5. Sound words - imitative harmony
Point of attack
Onomatopoeia
Flashback
Consonance
6. Direct contrast or opposite
Pathetic Fallacy
A Priori Reasoning
Dialect
Antithesis
7. Making a situation seem less important or serious than it is
Understatement
Figurative Language
Anecdote
Pathos
8. Inanimate objects or abstract ideas given human characteristics
Setting
Pathetic Fallacy
Personification
Anaphora
9. A formal speech praising one who has died
Metonymy
Oratory
Eulogy
Pun
10. The 'unravelling' or resolution of the story - falling action
Denouement
Homily
Personification
Dramatic Irony
11. A story that operates on the symbolic level and teaches a lesson or moral
Irony
Parable
Rhetorical Question
Foil
12. Type of irony in which a person seems to be praising something but actually insulting
Tone
Imagery
Sarcasm
Eulogy
13. A question that does not expect an explicit answer
A Priori Reasoning
Syllogism
Rhetorical Question
Consonance
14. A part is used to represent the whole (crown=king)
Extended Metaphor
Ambiguity
Onomatopoeia
Synecdoche
15. Time and place of a story
Colloquial
Setting
Symbol
Syntax
16. An inscription on a tombstone
Euphemism
Connotation
Epitaph
Subtext
17. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Subtext
Syntax
Diction
Point of attack
18. A metaphor which changes and grows throughout the story
Epiphany
Extended Metaphor
Inference
Assonance
19. When the story begins
Pathos
Epigraph
Point of attack
Repetition
20. An unexpected outcome
Irony
Situational Irony
A Priori Reasoning
Parody
21. A detail - image - or character type that occurs frequently in myth and literature - thought to appeal to the unconscious
Motif
Logical Fallacy
Archetype
Conflict
22. Attitude the narrator wants the reader to take toward a setting - character - or idea
Tone
Inductive Reasoning
Thesis
Simile
23. Making something sound nicer than it is; candy-coated words
Epiphany
Euphemism
Rhetorical Question
Climax
24. A metaphor around which the entire story revolves
Conceit
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Controlling Metaphor
25. A political comment through the use of humor
Dialect
Satire
Conceit
Cliche
26. Word choice
Flashback
Zeugma
Diction
Consonance
27. A form of logic that moves from the general to the specific
Epigraph
Deductive Reasoning
Ambiguity
Denotation
28. A story that functions on the symbolic level
Allegory
Foreshadowing
Hyperbole
Synecdoche
29. Emotional definition of a word
Oratory
Consonance
Ad Hominem
Connotation
30. Events that take place before the story begins
Non Sequitur
Anticlimax
Exposition
Imagery
31. Technical - specialized language
Homily
Motif
Jargon
Metonymy
32. A short witty statement
Aphorism
Subtext
Connotation
Situational Irony
33. A sermon or moralistic lecture
Exposition
Homily
Allegory
Symbol
34. A conclusion that can be arrived at without any observations of the world - but relies only on logical connections between ideas
Homily
Parallelism
Epitaph
A Priori Reasoning
35. The manipulation of words for a specific purpose
Rhetoric
Chiasmus
Situational Irony
Sarcasm
36. A play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but differ in meaning
Imagery
Pun
Setting
Understatement
37. Form of personification - speaking to an absent or dead person or object as if it is there
Metonymy
Sarcasm
Apostrophe
Personification
38. Unexpected outcome in the plot
Situational Irony
Anecdote
Paradox
Satire
39. The underlying message
Denotation
Theme
Ad Hominem
Parallelism
40. A form a logic that moves from the specific to the general
Conceit
Denouement
Inductive Reasoning
Dialect
41. Describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
Metonymy
Tone
Epitaph
Dialect
42. Contrasting words placed together for effect
Synecdoche
Oxymoron
Dialect
Symbol
43. Emotional response of the reader
Archetype
Rhetoric
Mood
Homily
44. A comic imitation that ridicules the original. It can be mocking or gently humorous
Theme
Parody
Connotation
Archetype
45. Scholarly - academic writing that is difficult to understand
Pedantic
Conceit
Ad Hominem
Inductive Reasoning
46. A word that represents a larger idea or concept
Symbol
Verbal Irony
Jargon
Epitaph
47. Exaggeration
Allusion
Pun
Hyperbole
Inference
48. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Cliche
Foreshadowing
Subtext
Pathetic Fallacy
49. Same beginning sound
Irony
Alliteration
Parody
Pedantic
50. Deliberately unclear - having multiple meanings
Jargon
Pun
Ambiguity
Tone