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Rhetoric Vocab
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logic-and-reasoning
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1. The underlying message
Theme
Epiphany
Chiasmus
Epigraph
2. The use of a quotation at the beginning of the work which often hints at a theme
Apostrophe
Epigraph
Personification
Verbal Irony
3. The 'unravelling' or resolution of the story - falling action
Satire
Consonance
Syntax
Denouement
4. A story that operates on the symbolic level and teaches a lesson or moral
Analogy
Euphemism
Parable
Controlling Metaphor
5. A detail - image - or character type that occurs frequently in myth and literature - thought to appeal to the unconscious
Syntax
Denotation
Archetype
Analogy
6. A conclusion that can be arrived at without any observations of the world - but relies only on logical connections between ideas
A Priori Reasoning
Motif
Flashback
Non Sequitur
7. Unexpected outcome in the plot
Tone
Foreshadowing
Diction
Situational Irony
8. Type of irony in which a person seems to be praising something but actually insulting
Sarcasm
Ambiguity
Oxymoron
Conceit
9. When the reader expects a climax to occur and it doesn't happen
Pathetic Fallacy
Anticlimax
Extended Metaphor
Conflict
10. Clues that tip the reader off as to What is to come later in the work
Figurative Language
Hyperbole
Foreshadowing
Point of attack
11. Emotional response of the reader
Connotation
Paradox
Climax
Mood
12. Repetition of vowel sounds
Situational Irony
Assonance
Pedantic
Symbol
13. Using the same word or phrase for emphasis
Anaphora
Tone
Verbal Irony
Repetition
14. A political comment through the use of humor
Satire
Chiasmus
Ad Hominem
Hyperbole
15. Sentences - or parts of a sentence with similar structure
Simile
Subtext
Flashback
Parallelism
16. Words - phrases - ideas placed side by side for effect
Juxtaposition
Understatement
Logical Fallacy
Climax
17. Emotional definition of a word
Thesis
Tone
Ambiguity
Connotation
18. Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences
Anaphora
Mood
Assonance
Conflict
19. Deliberately unclear - having multiple meanings
Understatement
Ambiguity
Parable
Connotation
20. Word order or organization
Tone
Epigraph
Diction
Syntax
21. A moment of great revelation
Epiphany
Euphemism
Repetition
Subtext
22. A numbered list
Dramatic Irony
Enumeration
Allegory
Theme
23. Form of personification - speaking to an absent or dead person or object as if it is there
Consonance
Apostrophe
Point of attack
Conflict
24. A formal - often pompous - speech
Oratory
Anaphora
Extended Metaphor
Hyperbole
25. A play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but differ in meaning
Colloquial
Pun
Anaphora
A Priori Reasoning
26. A form of personification - only it is not a character in the story
Syllogism
Pathetic Fallacy
Alliteration
Pathos
27. The use of slang in writing
Situational Irony
Anticlimax
Dramatic Irony
Colloquial
28. A comic imitation that ridicules the original. It can be mocking or gently humorous
Bathos
Simile
Parody
Diction
29. Inanimate objects or abstract ideas given human characteristics
Personification
Simile
Bathos
Situational Irony
30. Change and growth of the character
Tone
Flashback
A Priori Reasoning
Characterization
31. A mistake in reasoning
Aphorism
Foil
Metaphor
Logical Fallacy
32. A formal speech praising one who has died
Anecdote
Personification
Subtext
Eulogy
33. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
Didactic
Onomatopoeia
Oratory
Anticlimax
34. A part is used to represent the whole (crown=king)
Understatement
Simile
Oratory
Synecdoche
35. Exaggeration
Ambiguity
Verbal Irony
Flashback
Hyperbole
36. Literary - historical - artistic reference
Inference
Allusion
Euphemism
Bathos
37. A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts - events - episodes
Analogy
Flashback
Repetition
Syllogism
38. Attitude the narrator wants the reader to take toward a setting - character - or idea
A Priori Reasoning
Euphemism
Pathetic Fallacy
Tone
39. Choices a character makes in relation to an obstacle (problem)
Conflict
Allegory
Didactic
Bathos
40. Character whose behavior and values contrast with those of another character
Metonymy
Foil
Epiphany
Assonance
41. Word choice
Diction
Pun
Deductive Reasoning
Denotation
42. A rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea
Ad Hominem
Archetype
Onomatopoeia
Controlling Metaphor
43. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Didactic
Characterization
Subtext
Bathos
44. Making something sound nicer than it is; candy-coated words
Epigraph
Euphemism
Tone
Chiasmus
45. Point of understanding or awakening (not necessarily emotional)
Anticlimax
Climax
Paradox
Chiasmus
46. Literary devices that enable an author to operate on levels other than the literal (simile - metaphor - etc)
Foreshadowing
Flashback
Denouement
Figurative Language
47. Direct contrast or opposite
Symbol
Antithesis
Assonance
Pun
48. Sound words - imitative harmony
Assonance
Syntax
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
49. A form of logic that moves from the general to the specific
Alliteration
Deductive Reasoning
Understatement
Verbal Irony
50. A particularly clever extended metaphor
Verbal Irony
Conceit
Climax
Allusion
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