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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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1. Statement that contradicts itself - "the more you learn the less you know"
Rhetorical Question
Simile
Apostrophe
Paradox
2. Same ending sounds
Didactic
Pedantic
Deductive Reasoning
Consonance
3. Direct contrast or opposite
Epigraph
Allusion
Mood
Antithesis
4. The manipulation of words for a specific purpose
Juxtaposition
Didactic
Simile
Rhetoric
5. A form a logic that moves from the specific to the general
Inductive Reasoning
Diction
Irony
Verbal Irony
6. A story that operates on the symbolic level and teaches a lesson or moral
Pathetic Fallacy
Connotation
Non Sequitur
Parable
7. A comic imitation that ridicules the original. It can be mocking or gently humorous
Connotation
Metonymy
Parody
Epitaph
8. When the story begins
Inference
Foreshadowing
Point of attack
Understatement
9. The answer to a question
Thesis
Connotation
Colloquial
Allusion
10. A detail - image - or character type that occurs frequently in myth and literature - thought to appeal to the unconscious
Pathos
Deductive Reasoning
Zeugma
Archetype
11. Direct contrast or opposite
Imagery
Antithesis
Alliteration
Diction
12. The recreation of regional spoken language
Oxymoron
Anecdote
Dialect
Pun
13. The use of a quotation at the beginning of the work which often hints at a theme
Rhetorical Question
Personification
Epigraph
Analogy
14. A numbered list
Theme
Enumeration
Sarcasm
Euphemism
15. Repetition of vowel sounds
Hyperbole
Anticlimax
Assonance
Chiasmus
16. A formal speech praising one who has died
Eulogy
Rhetoric
Flashback
Parody
17. A question that does not expect an explicit answer
Rhetorical Question
Paradox
Non Sequitur
Zeugma
18. Contrasting words placed together for effect
Oxymoron
Subtext
Hyperbole
Aphorism
19. A play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but differ in meaning
Climax
Anecdote
Pun
Metonymy
20. A particularly clever extended metaphor
Conceit
Thesis
Rhetoric
Verbal Irony
21. Describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
Simile
Connotation
Metonymy
Point of attack
22. A mistake in reasoning
Colloquial
Homily
Logical Fallacy
Connotation
23. A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is reversed ('Susan walked - and in rushed Mary.')
Oxymoron
Chiasmus
Controlling Metaphor
Alliteration
24. 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.)
Parallelism
Ad Hominem
Setting
Zeugma
25. A political comment through the use of humor
Irony
Bathos
Homily
Satire
26. Pattern; repeated image - symbol - idea
Chiasmus
Jargon
Motif
Personification
27. Attitude the narrator wants the reader to take toward a setting - character - or idea
Tone
Parody
Inference
Allusion
28. Sentences - or parts of a sentence with similar structure
Subtext
Parallelism
Enumeration
Anaphora
29. Clues that tip the reader off as to What is to come later in the work
A Priori Reasoning
Aphorism
Foreshadowing
Conceit
30. Emotional response of the reader
Mood
Deductive Reasoning
Repetition
Denouement
31. Form of personification - speaking to an absent or dead person or object as if it is there
Characterization
Ad Hominem
Apostrophe
Climax
32. Same beginning sound
Epiphany
Metonymy
Alliteration
Figurative Language
33. Exaggeration
Oratory
Assonance
Point of attack
Hyperbole
34. A comparison using like or as
Situational Irony
Synecdoche
Theme
Simile
35. Words - phrases - ideas placed side by side for effect
Connotation
Motif
Euphemism
Juxtaposition
36. A comparison between two dissimilar ideas or things
Analogy
Symbol
Bathos
Parody
37. A metaphor which changes and grows throughout the story
Antithesis
Extended Metaphor
Epigraph
Assonance
38. Scholarly - academic writing that is difficult to understand
Theme
Pedantic
Epiphany
Motif
39. Where the audience knows more than the character
Allusion
Conflict
Dramatic Irony
Setting
40. Type of irony in which a person seems to be praising something but actually insulting
Connotation
Sarcasm
Alliteration
Verbal Irony
41. Time and place of a story
Thesis
Bathos
Setting
Anecdote
42. The underlying message
Theme
Exposition
Onomatopoeia
Assonance
43. A form of personification - only it is not a character in the story
Pathetic Fallacy
Deductive Reasoning
Anaphora
Setting
44. Emotional definition of a word
Satire
Antithesis
Metaphor
Connotation
45. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
Parable
Denouement
Exposition
Didactic
46. Change and growth of the character
Characterization
Syntax
Imagery
Anticlimax
47. When the reader expects a climax to occur and it doesn't happen
Zeugma
Dramatic Irony
Motif
Anticlimax
48. A metaphor around which the entire story revolves
Sarcasm
Figurative Language
Diction
Controlling Metaphor
49. A direct comparison
Diction
Metaphor
Denouement
Rhetorical Question
50. Using the same word or phrase for emphasis
Thesis
Homily
Metonymy
Repetition