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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 story that functions on the symbolic level
Allegory
Antithesis
Allusion
Epigraph
2. The recreation of regional spoken language
Rhetoric
Epigraph
Dialect
Sarcasm
3. A comparison between two dissimilar ideas or things
Connotation
Understatement
Motif
Analogy
4. Saying one thing but meaning the opposite
Anecdote
Assonance
Dramatic Irony
Verbal Irony
5. A metaphor which changes and grows throughout the story
Foil
Extended Metaphor
Motif
Figurative Language
6. When the story begins
Consonance
Point of attack
Syllogism
Tone
7. A rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea
Sarcasm
Motif
Colloquial
Ad Hominem
8. Contrasting words placed together for effect
Flashback
Oxymoron
Motif
Characterization
9. A comic imitation that ridicules the original. It can be mocking or gently humorous
Ambiguity
Allegory
Enumeration
Parody
10. A formal argument that consists of a major premise - a minor one - and a conclusion
Syllogism
Bathos
Rhetorical Question
Mood
11. A formal speech praising one who has died
Inductive Reasoning
Flashback
Allusion
Eulogy
12. Form of personification - speaking to an absent or dead person or object as if it is there
A Priori Reasoning
Enumeration
Apostrophe
Exposition
13. Sentences - or parts of a sentence with similar structure
Chiasmus
Rhetoric
Parallelism
Apostrophe
14. A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts - events - episodes
Apostrophe
Pathetic Fallacy
Oxymoron
Flashback
15. Time and place of a story
Verbal Irony
Setting
Flashback
Anecdote
16. Direct contrast or opposite
Conceit
Ambiguity
Antithesis
Epitaph
17. Character whose behavior and values contrast with those of another character
Verbal Irony
Foil
Bathos
Extended Metaphor
18. Events that take place before the story begins
Exposition
Conflict
Dramatic Irony
Enumeration
19. Point of understanding or awakening (not necessarily emotional)
Dramatic Irony
Allusion
Climax
Analogy
20. A part is used to represent the whole (crown=king)
Anticlimax
Synecdoche
Chiasmus
Oxymoron
21. An overused expression
Homily
Satire
Hyperbole
Cliche
22. Sound words - imitative harmony
A Priori Reasoning
Connotation
Pedantic
Onomatopoeia
23. Where the audience knows more than the character
Syllogism
Mood
Dramatic Irony
Pun
24. An inference that does not follow logically from the premise (literally - does not follow)
Syllogism
Denotation
Situational Irony
Non Sequitur
25. The use of a quotation at the beginning of the work which often hints at a theme
Epigraph
Extended Metaphor
Pun
Eulogy
26. Words - phrases - ideas placed side by side for effect
Figurative Language
Pedantic
Didactic
Juxtaposition
27. A detail - image - or character type that occurs frequently in myth and literature - thought to appeal to the unconscious
Rhetorical Question
Archetype
Thesis
Anaphora
28. Clues that tip the reader off as to What is to come later in the work
Paradox
Foreshadowing
Oratory
Diction
29. Choices a character makes in relation to an obstacle (problem)
Homily
Conflict
Hyperbole
Syllogism
30. A moment of great revelation
Parable
Colloquial
Epiphany
Consonance
31. A play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but differ in meaning
Extended Metaphor
Pun
Personification
Syntax
32. Making a situation seem less important or serious than it is
Understatement
Pathos
Bathos
Inference
33. Word order or organization
Chiasmus
Antithesis
Syntax
Epitaph
34. Emotional definition of a word
A Priori Reasoning
Ambiguity
Theme
Connotation
35. Deliberately unclear - having multiple meanings
Syntax
Ambiguity
Figurative Language
Zeugma
36. When the reader expects a climax to occur and it doesn't happen
Eulogy
Anticlimax
Cliche
Assonance
37. Emotional response of the reader
Anticlimax
Onomatopoeia
A Priori Reasoning
Mood
38. A formal - often pompous - speech
Oratory
Verbal Irony
Irony
Situational Irony
39. Same ending sounds
Flashback
Consonance
Extended Metaphor
Non Sequitur
40. Pattern; repeated image - symbol - idea
Motif
Mood
Antithesis
Eulogy
41. The 'unravelling' or resolution of the story - falling action
A Priori Reasoning
Denouement
Subtext
Extended Metaphor
42. Exaggeration
Anaphora
Cliche
Hyperbole
Pathetic Fallacy
43. A particularly clever extended metaphor
Homily
Assonance
Sarcasm
Conceit
44. Statement that contradicts itself - "the more you learn the less you know"
Homily
Paradox
Repetition
Assonance
45. Literary - historical - artistic reference
Figurative Language
Allusion
Imagery
Parable
46. A form of logic that moves from the general to the specific
Oxymoron
Exposition
Archetype
Deductive Reasoning
47. An inscription on a tombstone
Personification
Epitaph
Controlling Metaphor
Understatement
48. A short witty statement
Repetition
Aphorism
Inference
Ambiguity
49. A form of personification - only it is not a character in the story
Climax
Foreshadowing
Pathetic Fallacy
Anecdote
50. Making something sound nicer than it is; candy-coated words
Euphemism
Exposition
Epitaph
Assonance