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Rhetoric Vocab
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Subject
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logic-and-reasoning
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Scholarly - academic writing that is difficult to understand
Subtext
Anecdote
Inference
Pedantic
2. Time and place of a story
Figurative Language
Setting
Juxtaposition
Pathos
3. Making a situation seem less important or serious than it is
Tone
Parable
Connotation
Understatement
4. A short witty statement
Aphorism
Understatement
Metonymy
Epiphany
5. Contrasting words placed together for effect
Subtext
Parody
Apostrophe
Oxymoron
6. Character whose behavior and values contrast with those of another character
Metaphor
Simile
Syllogism
Foil
7. Same beginning sound
Euphemism
Aphorism
Alliteration
Antithesis
8. Attitude the narrator wants the reader to take toward a setting - character - or idea
Jargon
Tone
Pathos
Analogy
9. A numbered list
Archetype
Chiasmus
Enumeration
Epitaph
10. Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences
Irony
Oratory
Anaphora
Parallelism
11. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Subtext
Connotation
Setting
Eulogy
12. Inanimate objects or abstract ideas given human characteristics
Exposition
Enumeration
Pathetic Fallacy
Personification
13. The recreation of regional spoken language
Pun
Dialect
Inference
Logical Fallacy
14. Words that create mental pictures
Imagery
Onomatopoeia
Chiasmus
Assonance
15. Same ending sounds
Point of attack
Consonance
Paradox
Synecdoche
16. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Situational Irony
Antithesis
Irony
Subtext
17. Point of understanding or awakening (not necessarily emotional)
Climax
Theme
Bathos
Assonance
18. An overused expression
Cliche
Dialect
Deductive Reasoning
Didactic
19. A moment of great revelation
Understatement
Epiphany
Parody
Pedantic
20. Technical - specialized language
Diction
Eulogy
Jargon
Symbol
21. Statement that contradicts itself - "the more you learn the less you know"
Paradox
Oxymoron
Synecdoche
Pedantic
22. The 'unravelling' or resolution of the story - falling action
Anecdote
Conflict
Rhetorical Question
Denouement
23. A form of personification - only it is not a character in the story
Pun
Ambiguity
Pathetic Fallacy
Parody
24. Sentences - or parts of a sentence with similar structure
Extended Metaphor
Verbal Irony
Parallelism
Archetype
25. Describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
Setting
Metonymy
Anaphora
Foil
26. A metaphor around which the entire story revolves
Archetype
Consonance
Controlling Metaphor
Analogy
27. Word choice
Diction
Extended Metaphor
Personification
Pathetic Fallacy
28. A rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea
Ad Hominem
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
Homily
29. An inference that does not follow logically from the premise (literally - does not follow)
Characterization
Anecdote
Eulogy
Non Sequitur
30. The answer to a question
Syntax
Pun
Thesis
Dialect
31. When the story begins
Anaphora
Point of attack
Onomatopoeia
Diction
32. A sermon or moralistic lecture
Homily
Cliche
Inference
Metonymy
33. Direct contrast or opposite
Alliteration
Oxymoron
Antithesis
Apostrophe
34. When the reader expects a climax to occur and it doesn't happen
Anticlimax
Ambiguity
Flashback
Zeugma
35. Events that take place before the story begins
Exposition
Subtext
Tone
Imagery
36. Using the same word or phrase for emphasis
Rhetorical Question
Mood
Repetition
Parody
37. Where the audience knows more than the character
Zeugma
Dramatic Irony
Cliche
Figurative Language
38. A formal - often pompous - speech
Symbol
Ambiguity
Flashback
Oratory
39. A formal speech praising one who has died
Figurative Language
Eulogy
Antithesis
Motif
40. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
Theme
Enumeration
Allusion
Didactic
41. Direct contrast or opposite
Understatement
Denouement
Antithesis
Allegory
42. Clues that tip the reader off as to What is to come later in the work
Conceit
Controlling Metaphor
Mood
Foreshadowing
43. A story that functions on the symbolic level
Extended Metaphor
Controlling Metaphor
Allegory
Foil
44. Words which evoke sorrow
Rhetorical Question
Pathos
Anticlimax
Analogy
45. Choices a character makes in relation to an obstacle (problem)
Assonance
Conflict
Jargon
Dramatic Irony
46. A part is used to represent the whole (crown=king)
Setting
Synecdoche
Chiasmus
Conflict
47. A particularly clever extended metaphor
Conceit
Non Sequitur
Deductive Reasoning
Inductive Reasoning
48. 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.)
Syllogism
Zeugma
Colloquial
Anticlimax
49. The manipulation of words for a specific purpose
Rhetoric
Foil
Symbol
Alliteration
50. A formal argument that consists of a major premise - a minor one - and a conclusion
Foreshadowing
Pathetic Fallacy
Syllogism
Characterization