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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. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Oratory
Non Sequitur
Characterization
Subtext
2. Literary devices that enable an author to operate on levels other than the literal (simile - metaphor - etc)
Denotation
Personification
Parody
Figurative Language
3. A word that represents a larger idea or concept
Flashback
Pun
Epitaph
Symbol
4. A story that functions on the symbolic level
Oxymoron
Cliche
Allegory
Syllogism
5. An unexpected outcome
Personification
Mood
Irony
Zeugma
6. Literary - historical - artistic reference
Allusion
Deductive Reasoning
Foil
Metaphor
7. Dictionary definition of a word
A Priori Reasoning
Analogy
Personification
Denotation
8. Change and growth of the character
Dramatic Irony
Deductive Reasoning
Ambiguity
Characterization
9. Same beginning sound
Alliteration
Logical Fallacy
Pun
Sarcasm
10. Scholarly - academic writing that is difficult to understand
Pun
Pedantic
Non Sequitur
Syllogism
11. A direct comparison
Apostrophe
Dramatic Irony
Metaphor
Antithesis
12. Making a situation seem less important or serious than it is
Symbol
Understatement
Dramatic Irony
Parable
13. The use of a quotation at the beginning of the work which often hints at a theme
Chiasmus
Epigraph
Extended Metaphor
Oratory
14. The underlying message
Parable
Juxtaposition
Theme
Climax
15. Reaching for the sublime - the tone results in the absurd
Allusion
Bathos
Setting
Assonance
16. A question that does not expect an explicit answer
Pathos
Denouement
Rhetorical Question
Apostrophe
17. A comparison between two dissimilar ideas or things
Logical Fallacy
Analogy
Euphemism
Figurative Language
18. Sound words - imitative harmony
Onomatopoeia
Foil
Irony
Ad Hominem
19. Time and place of a story
Analogy
Jargon
Repetition
Setting
20. Describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
Metonymy
Aphorism
Theme
Repetition
21. An inference that does not follow logically from the premise (literally - does not follow)
Subtext
Non Sequitur
Epitaph
Motif
22. Clues that tip the reader off as to What is to come later in the work
Denouement
Hyperbole
Ad Hominem
Foreshadowing
23. A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts - events - episodes
Subtext
Flashback
Anecdote
Pathos
24. Direct contrast or opposite
Foil
Antithesis
Metonymy
Irony
25. Attitude the narrator wants the reader to take toward a setting - character - or idea
Climax
Epigraph
Dramatic Irony
Tone
26. The 'unravelling' or resolution of the story - falling action
Dialect
Jargon
Repetition
Denouement
27. A form of personification - only it is not a character in the story
Aphorism
Diction
Pathetic Fallacy
Pun
28. A conclusion drawn from presented details
Inference
Irony
Situational Irony
Climax
29. Where the audience knows more than the character
Hyperbole
Mood
Dramatic Irony
Inference
30. A particularly clever extended metaphor
Motif
Parallelism
Synecdoche
Conceit
31. Sentences - or parts of a sentence with similar structure
Parallelism
Rhetorical Question
Thesis
Ambiguity
32. Statement that contradicts itself - "the more you learn the less you know"
Zeugma
Jargon
Hyperbole
Paradox
33. A comparison using like or as
Zeugma
Symbol
Parody
Simile
34. An inscription on a tombstone
Epitaph
Jargon
Thesis
Paradox
35. The use of slang in writing
Paradox
Ad Hominem
Pathos
Colloquial
36. A metaphor which changes and grows throughout the story
Homily
Imagery
Parody
Extended Metaphor
37. A rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea
Ad Hominem
Antithesis
Rhetoric
Conflict
38. Type of irony in which a person seems to be praising something but actually insulting
Sarcasm
Non Sequitur
Chiasmus
Mood
39. A formal speech praising one who has died
Epiphany
Irony
Eulogy
Epitaph
40. Deliberately unclear - having multiple meanings
Oxymoron
Anecdote
Ambiguity
Chiasmus
41. A comic imitation that ridicules the original. It can be mocking or gently humorous
Epiphany
Jargon
Pedantic
Parody
42. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
Eulogy
Theme
Didactic
Oratory
43. Choices a character makes in relation to an obstacle (problem)
Inference
Conflict
Denotation
A Priori Reasoning
44. Words that create mental pictures
Parody
Imagery
Anaphora
Ambiguity
45. Words which evoke sorrow
Aphorism
Rhetoric
Euphemism
Pathos
46. 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.)
Parody
Zeugma
Allegory
Eulogy
47. Saying one thing but meaning the opposite
Allusion
Verbal Irony
Parallelism
Dramatic Irony
48. Form of personification - speaking to an absent or dead person or object as if it is there
Verbal Irony
Metaphor
Apostrophe
Exposition
49. Using the same word or phrase for emphasis
Repetition
Inference
Tone
Oxymoron
50. Repetition of vowel sounds
Oratory
Assonance
Didactic
Analogy