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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. Contrasting words placed together for effect
Climax
Ambiguity
Oxymoron
Characterization
2. Exaggeration
Conflict
Antithesis
Hyperbole
Epitaph
3. An inference that does not follow logically from the premise (literally - does not follow)
Oxymoron
Mood
Non Sequitur
Foreshadowing
4. Sound words - imitative harmony
Enumeration
Theme
Onomatopoeia
Ambiguity
5. Scholarly - academic writing that is difficult to understand
Metonymy
Pedantic
Inference
Thesis
6. An unexpected outcome
Simile
Climax
Irony
Point of attack
7. Where the audience knows more than the character
Setting
Thesis
Situational Irony
Dramatic Irony
8. When the story begins
Verbal Irony
Point of attack
Foreshadowing
Anecdote
9. A story that functions on the symbolic level
Figurative Language
Simile
Bathos
Allegory
10. Unexpected outcome in the plot
Homily
Pathos
Situational Irony
Setting
11. A conclusion that can be arrived at without any observations of the world - but relies only on logical connections between ideas
Synecdoche
A Priori Reasoning
Non Sequitur
Epitaph
12. Direct contrast or opposite
Apostrophe
Enumeration
Antithesis
Pathetic Fallacy
13. Deliberately unclear - having multiple meanings
Ambiguity
Synecdoche
Jargon
Non Sequitur
14. Choices a character makes in relation to an obstacle (problem)
Setting
Ambiguity
Conflict
Denotation
15. Repetition of vowel sounds
Assonance
Colloquial
Extended Metaphor
Point of attack
16. Attitude the narrator wants the reader to take toward a setting - character - or idea
Dialect
Denouement
Cliche
Tone
17. Making something sound nicer than it is; candy-coated words
Bathos
Jargon
Simile
Euphemism
18. Clues that tip the reader off as to What is to come later in the work
Inference
Parody
Foreshadowing
Rhetoric
19. A rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea
Inductive Reasoning
Mood
Understatement
Ad Hominem
20. Emotional response of the reader
Parody
Deductive Reasoning
Mood
Alliteration
21. A sermon or moralistic lecture
Homily
Climax
Diction
Extended Metaphor
22. Reaching for the sublime - the tone results in the absurd
Inductive Reasoning
Extended Metaphor
Bathos
Metaphor
23. Describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
Metonymy
A Priori Reasoning
Allegory
Tone
24. Literary devices that enable an author to operate on levels other than the literal (simile - metaphor - etc)
Subtext
Pun
Figurative Language
Dialect
25. Using the same word or phrase for emphasis
Non Sequitur
Oxymoron
Repetition
Dialect
26. The recreation of regional spoken language
Dialect
Oxymoron
Anecdote
Figurative Language
27. A formal - often pompous - speech
Non Sequitur
Oratory
Bathos
Alliteration
28. Words - phrases - ideas placed side by side for effect
Parable
Juxtaposition
Mood
Foil
29. The 'unravelling' or resolution of the story - falling action
Deductive Reasoning
Apostrophe
Pathos
Denouement
30. Form of personification - speaking to an absent or dead person or object as if it is there
Oratory
Homily
Symbol
Apostrophe
31. A direct comparison
Oxymoron
Pun
Satire
Metaphor
32. A short witty statement
Tone
Aphorism
Anticlimax
Satire
33. A form of personification - only it is not a character in the story
Anecdote
Pathetic Fallacy
Assonance
Ambiguity
34. Change and growth of the character
Symbol
Ad Hominem
Parable
Characterization
35. Same ending sounds
Antithesis
Point of attack
Consonance
Thesis
36. A formal speech praising one who has died
Synecdoche
Eulogy
Irony
Paradox
37. A word that represents a larger idea or concept
Anaphora
Diction
Homily
Symbol
38. A numbered list
Pathetic Fallacy
Epitaph
Enumeration
Connotation
39. Character whose behavior and values contrast with those of another character
Chiasmus
Didactic
Flashback
Foil
40. A mistake in reasoning
Allegory
Oxymoron
Logical Fallacy
Dramatic Irony
41. A moment of great revelation
Epiphany
Rhetorical Question
Antithesis
Analogy
42. Same beginning sound
Jargon
Tone
Characterization
Alliteration
43. Making a situation seem less important or serious than it is
Flashback
Understatement
Metonymy
Synecdoche
44. A metaphor around which the entire story revolves
Diction
Controlling Metaphor
Pun
Metaphor
45. Word choice
Epigraph
Diction
Characterization
Point of attack
46. A particularly clever extended metaphor
Bathos
Conceit
Hyperbole
Cliche
47. A form a logic that moves from the specific to the general
Conflict
Inductive Reasoning
Parallelism
Point of attack
48. Sentences - or parts of a sentence with similar structure
Apostrophe
Parallelism
Enumeration
Mood
49. 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.)
Exposition
Zeugma
Flashback
Climax
50. A political comment through the use of humor
Satire
Non Sequitur
Consonance
Exposition