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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. Ashort account of an interesting or humorous incident - intended to illustrate or support some point
Point of attack
Metaphor
Anecdote
Ambiguity
2. Same beginning sound
Thesis
Flashback
Enumeration
Alliteration
3. Reaching for the sublime - the tone results in the absurd
Ambiguity
Irony
Exposition
Bathos
4. A word that represents a larger idea or concept
Antithesis
Symbol
Personification
Foreshadowing
5. A comparison between two dissimilar ideas or things
Analogy
Anecdote
Symbol
Homily
6. Point of understanding or awakening (not necessarily emotional)
Subtext
Parallelism
Climax
Chiasmus
7. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
Didactic
Rhetoric
Onomatopoeia
Repetition
8. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Subtext
Rhetorical Question
Foreshadowing
Zeugma
9. A question that does not expect an explicit answer
Subtext
Simile
Inductive Reasoning
Rhetorical Question
10. An overused expression
Theme
Oxymoron
Cliche
Pun
11. The 'unravelling' or resolution of the story - falling action
Denouement
Subtext
Inductive Reasoning
Pathos
12. A story that functions on the symbolic level
Subtext
Satire
Allegory
Dialect
13. The use of slang in writing
Colloquial
Tone
Bathos
Parable
14. Words that create mental pictures
Denotation
Imagery
Deductive Reasoning
Homily
15. A metaphor around which the entire story revolves
Denouement
Ad Hominem
Controlling Metaphor
Point of attack
16. The manipulation of words for a specific purpose
Non Sequitur
Rhetoric
Mood
Eulogy
17. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Homily
Subtext
Denouement
Tone
18. Choices a character makes in relation to an obstacle (problem)
Conflict
Oxymoron
Ambiguity
Connotation
19. Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Imagery
Jargon
Euphemism
20. A part is used to represent the whole (crown=king)
Exposition
Syntax
Oxymoron
Synecdoche
21. Change and growth of the character
Point of attack
Exposition
Dialect
Characterization
22. A form a logic that moves from the specific to the general
Inductive Reasoning
Pathos
Rhetorical Question
Assonance
23. The use of a quotation at the beginning of the work which often hints at a theme
Assonance
Epigraph
Juxtaposition
Anticlimax
24. Unexpected outcome in the plot
Situational Irony
Zeugma
Flashback
A Priori Reasoning
25. Deliberately unclear - having multiple meanings
Flashback
Ambiguity
Cliche
Anticlimax
26. A political comment through the use of humor
Verbal Irony
Satire
Epiphany
Inference
27. Sentences - or parts of a sentence with similar structure
Inference
Homily
Juxtaposition
Parallelism
28. A form of personification - only it is not a character in the story
Symbol
Understatement
Denouement
Pathetic Fallacy
29. Type of irony in which a person seems to be praising something but actually insulting
Verbal Irony
Anecdote
Sarcasm
Flashback
30. A formal - often pompous - speech
Colloquial
Oratory
Parable
Denouement
31. Clues that tip the reader off as to What is to come later in the work
Foreshadowing
Figurative Language
Dramatic Irony
Antithesis
32. Events that take place before the story begins
Synecdoche
Exposition
Controlling Metaphor
Bathos
33. A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts - events - episodes
Analogy
Epiphany
Flashback
Non Sequitur
34. Time and place of a story
Situational Irony
Pathetic Fallacy
Setting
Pathos
35. A rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea
Analogy
Mood
Ad Hominem
Deductive Reasoning
36. A sermon or moralistic lecture
Subtext
Foreshadowing
Flashback
Homily
37. Scholarly - academic writing that is difficult to understand
Dialect
Point of attack
Oxymoron
Pedantic
38. A metaphor which changes and grows throughout the story
Extended Metaphor
Archetype
Connotation
Syllogism
39. A mistake in reasoning
Subtext
Parallelism
Rhetoric
Logical Fallacy
40. Literary - historical - artistic reference
Synecdoche
Analogy
Allusion
Didactic
41. Emotional response of the reader
Oratory
Mood
Alliteration
Inference
42. Words - phrases - ideas placed side by side for effect
Juxtaposition
Inductive Reasoning
Simile
Anaphora
43. Attitude the narrator wants the reader to take toward a setting - character - or idea
Theme
Non Sequitur
Denotation
Tone
44. Sound words - imitative harmony
Thesis
Foil
Onomatopoeia
Rhetorical Question
45. The underlying message
Theme
Enumeration
Imagery
Consonance
46. Making something sound nicer than it is; candy-coated words
Syntax
Climax
Euphemism
Diction
47. A story that operates on the symbolic level and teaches a lesson or moral
Repetition
Parable
Figurative Language
Climax
48. When the reader expects a climax to occur and it doesn't happen
Oratory
Rhetoric
Anticlimax
Imagery
49. A play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but differ in meaning
Theme
Pun
Diction
Subtext
50. Form of personification - speaking to an absent or dead person or object as if it is there
Symbol
Assonance
Extended Metaphor
Apostrophe