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Rhetoric Vocab
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logic-and-reasoning
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A particularly clever extended metaphor
Anticlimax
A Priori Reasoning
Eulogy
Conceit
2. A numbered list
Enumeration
Syntax
Oratory
Non Sequitur
3. A rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea
Non Sequitur
Ad Hominem
Bathos
Alliteration
4. Words that create mental pictures
Imagery
Didactic
Epitaph
Tone
5. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Controlling Metaphor
Irony
Subtext
Metonymy
6. A conclusion that can be arrived at without any observations of the world - but relies only on logical connections between ideas
A Priori Reasoning
Parallelism
Allusion
Consonance
7. Word order or organization
Pathetic Fallacy
Apostrophe
Oratory
Syntax
8. Deliberately unclear - having multiple meanings
Conflict
Pun
Epitaph
Ambiguity
9. Using the same word or phrase for emphasis
Repetition
Anaphora
Foil
Syntax
10. Words - phrases - ideas placed side by side for effect
Theme
Logical Fallacy
Eulogy
Juxtaposition
11. Choices a character makes in relation to an obstacle (problem)
Dramatic Irony
Synecdoche
Allusion
Conflict
12. Literary - historical - artistic reference
Euphemism
Allusion
Pedantic
Chiasmus
13. Pattern; repeated image - symbol - idea
Dramatic Irony
Motif
Parody
Zeugma
14. A detail - image - or character type that occurs frequently in myth and literature - thought to appeal to the unconscious
Paradox
Archetype
Parody
Non Sequitur
15. A comparison using like or as
Euphemism
Sarcasm
Epigraph
Simile
16. Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences
Non Sequitur
Controlling Metaphor
Anaphora
Thesis
17. When the story begins
Allusion
Juxtaposition
Alliteration
Point of attack
18. A metaphor around which the entire story revolves
Understatement
Rhetorical Question
Controlling Metaphor
Metaphor
19. A play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but differ in meaning
Irony
Allegory
Pun
Dramatic Irony
20. Same beginning sound
Dramatic Irony
Verbal Irony
Personification
Alliteration
21. Point of understanding or awakening (not necessarily emotional)
Inference
Denotation
Colloquial
Climax
22. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
Theme
Onomatopoeia
Syntax
Didactic
23. A direct comparison
Pathos
Thesis
Metaphor
Euphemism
24. A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts - events - episodes
Assonance
Ambiguity
Flashback
Metonymy
25. Technical - specialized language
Symbol
Repetition
Jargon
Anecdote
26. Scholarly - academic writing that is difficult to understand
Foreshadowing
Anticlimax
Conflict
Pedantic
27. Repetition of vowel sounds
Rhetoric
Assonance
Apostrophe
Understatement
28. A sermon or moralistic lecture
Metonymy
Deductive Reasoning
Homily
Personification
29. Form of personification - speaking to an absent or dead person or object as if it is there
Personification
Ambiguity
Imagery
Apostrophe
30. A form of logic that moves from the general to the specific
Homily
Conceit
Deductive Reasoning
Apostrophe
31. A part is used to represent the whole (crown=king)
Ambiguity
Synecdoche
Extended Metaphor
Epitaph
32. Where the audience knows more than the character
Hyperbole
Antithesis
Pedantic
Dramatic Irony
33. A story that functions on the symbolic level
Pun
Subtext
Allegory
Consonance
34. A mistake in reasoning
Anticlimax
Epigraph
Symbol
Logical Fallacy
35. Unexpected outcome in the plot
Diction
A Priori Reasoning
Situational Irony
Epiphany
36. The answer to a question
Flashback
Verbal Irony
Thesis
Personification
37. 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.)
Allegory
Zeugma
Apostrophe
Characterization
38. A formal argument that consists of a major premise - a minor one - and a conclusion
Connotation
Denotation
Syllogism
Logical Fallacy
39. Exaggeration
Parallelism
Pathos
Hyperbole
Apostrophe
40. Sentences - or parts of a sentence with similar structure
Simile
Bathos
Parallelism
Flashback
41. The manipulation of words for a specific purpose
Oxymoron
Rhetoric
Parable
Denouement
42. An inscription on a tombstone
Foil
Epitaph
Controlling Metaphor
Thesis
43. The recreation of regional spoken language
Synecdoche
Rhetoric
Epigraph
Dialect
44. An unexpected outcome
Symbol
Conflict
Irony
Allusion
45. Dictionary definition of a word
Dramatic Irony
Extended Metaphor
Exposition
Denotation
46. Direct contrast or opposite
Simile
Subtext
Zeugma
Antithesis
47. A form a logic that moves from the specific to the general
Rhetoric
Hyperbole
Inductive Reasoning
Archetype
48. When the reader expects a climax to occur and it doesn't happen
Anticlimax
Oxymoron
Inductive Reasoning
Climax
49. A formal speech praising one who has died
Controlling Metaphor
Euphemism
Conflict
Eulogy
50. A comic imitation that ridicules the original. It can be mocking or gently humorous
Denotation
Symbol
Parody
Colloquial