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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. Character whose behavior and values contrast with those of another character
Logical Fallacy
Satire
Setting
Foil
2. The answer to a question
Subtext
Imagery
Thesis
Antithesis
3. Same beginning sound
Alliteration
Oratory
Analogy
Denotation
4. A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts - events - episodes
Oratory
Anecdote
Alliteration
Flashback
5. Point of understanding or awakening (not necessarily emotional)
Pedantic
Epiphany
Climax
Motif
6. Sound words - imitative harmony
Antithesis
Motif
Onomatopoeia
Foil
7. Deliberately unclear - having multiple meanings
Diction
Ambiguity
Thesis
Pathos
8. A conclusion drawn from presented details
Bathos
Connotation
Hyperbole
Inference
9. Time and place of a story
Foreshadowing
Cliche
Parallelism
Setting
10. Attitude the narrator wants the reader to take toward a setting - character - or idea
Pathos
Tone
Oratory
Dialect
11. A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is reversed ('Susan walked - and in rushed Mary.')
Pathos
Archetype
Metonymy
Chiasmus
12. A part is used to represent the whole (crown=king)
Denotation
Cliche
Inductive Reasoning
Synecdoche
13. A metaphor which changes and grows throughout the story
Figurative Language
Extended Metaphor
Allusion
Denouement
14. Direct contrast or opposite
Rhetoric
Understatement
Extended Metaphor
Antithesis
15. The use of a quotation at the beginning of the work which often hints at a theme
Epigraph
Antithesis
Eulogy
Logical Fallacy
16. Ashort account of an interesting or humorous incident - intended to illustrate or support some point
Tone
Hyperbole
Assonance
Anecdote
17. The underlying message
Archetype
Theme
Assonance
Antithesis
18. Literary devices that enable an author to operate on levels other than the literal (simile - metaphor - etc)
Rhetorical Question
Inductive Reasoning
Figurative Language
Syntax
19. The recreation of regional spoken language
Dialect
Diction
Eulogy
Situational Irony
20. A formal argument that consists of a major premise - a minor one - and a conclusion
Logical Fallacy
Allusion
Syllogism
Aphorism
21. Sentences - or parts of a sentence with similar structure
Rhetorical Question
Climax
Conceit
Parallelism
22. A political comment through the use of humor
Allegory
Satire
Consonance
Conflict
23. A form a logic that moves from the specific to the general
Epiphany
Parable
Inductive Reasoning
Figurative Language
24. Exaggeration
Denouement
Assonance
Verbal Irony
Hyperbole
25. The manipulation of words for a specific purpose
Motif
Denotation
Rhetoric
Imagery
26. A comparison using like or as
Alliteration
Simile
Subtext
Assonance
27. Words that create mental pictures
Metonymy
Eulogy
Imagery
Pedantic
28. Same ending sounds
Inductive Reasoning
Epigraph
Verbal Irony
Consonance
29. Making a situation seem less important or serious than it is
Rhetoric
Motif
Understatement
Personification
30. An inference that does not follow logically from the premise (literally - does not follow)
Pathos
Understatement
Subtext
Non Sequitur
31. A form of personification - only it is not a character in the story
Verbal Irony
Paradox
Pathetic Fallacy
Dramatic Irony
32. Emotional definition of a word
Climax
Didactic
Subtext
Connotation
33. A question that does not expect an explicit answer
Rhetorical Question
Metaphor
Situational Irony
Anaphora
34. Contrasting words placed together for effect
Oxymoron
Rhetoric
Foreshadowing
Point of attack
35. Clues that tip the reader off as to What is to come later in the work
Anecdote
Epiphany
Foreshadowing
Understatement
36. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Anaphora
Foil
Subtext
Motif
37. A comparison between two dissimilar ideas or things
Analogy
Archetype
Simile
Enumeration
38. Dictionary definition of a word
Pedantic
Archetype
Foreshadowing
Denotation
39. Inanimate objects or abstract ideas given human characteristics
Personification
Aphorism
Satire
Theme
40. A formal speech praising one who has died
Didactic
Eulogy
Verbal Irony
Anaphora
41. Type of irony in which a person seems to be praising something but actually insulting
Synecdoche
Dramatic Irony
Sarcasm
Epigraph
42. An unexpected outcome
Extended Metaphor
Irony
Apostrophe
Theme
43. Literary - historical - artistic reference
Climax
Mood
Allusion
Dramatic Irony
44. A particularly clever extended metaphor
Hyperbole
Conceit
Dramatic Irony
Imagery
45. When the story begins
Point of attack
Conflict
Didactic
Satire
46. Reaching for the sublime - the tone results in the absurd
Homily
Foreshadowing
Bathos
Juxtaposition
47. When the reader expects a climax to occur and it doesn't happen
Onomatopoeia
Anticlimax
Foreshadowing
Subtext
48. A rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea
Juxtaposition
Rhetorical Question
Ad Hominem
Jargon
49. Direct contrast or opposite
Pedantic
Analogy
Anticlimax
Antithesis
50. Choices a character makes in relation to an obstacle (problem)
Conflict
Hyperbole
Allegory
Zeugma