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Rhetoric Vocab
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logic-and-reasoning
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1. A direct comparison
Homily
Metaphor
Imagery
Inference
2. Where the audience knows more than the character
Dramatic Irony
Dialect
Thesis
Synecdoche
3. A political comment through the use of humor
Setting
Consonance
Satire
Anecdote
4. Form of personification - speaking to an absent or dead person or object as if it is there
Conflict
Epiphany
Anecdote
Apostrophe
5. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
Didactic
Connotation
Pun
Denouement
6. The recreation of regional spoken language
Dialect
Parable
Extended Metaphor
Epitaph
7. A metaphor which changes and grows throughout the story
Diction
Extended Metaphor
Non Sequitur
Setting
8. Unexpected outcome in the plot
Situational Irony
Controlling Metaphor
Enumeration
Verbal Irony
9. A word that represents a larger idea or concept
Extended Metaphor
Rhetorical Question
Symbol
Climax
10. Direct contrast or opposite
Motif
Antithesis
Sarcasm
Personification
11. Exaggeration
Rhetorical Question
Anaphora
Pun
Hyperbole
12. Attitude the narrator wants the reader to take toward a setting - character - or idea
Epitaph
Diction
Zeugma
Tone
13. When the story begins
Point of attack
Epigraph
Denotation
Non Sequitur
14. A form of personification - only it is not a character in the story
Pathos
Pathetic Fallacy
Point of attack
Verbal Irony
15. A formal speech praising one who has died
Anecdote
Eulogy
Aphorism
Antithesis
16. Emotional response of the reader
Simile
Mood
Bathos
Hyperbole
17. Events that take place before the story begins
Exposition
Subtext
Climax
Extended Metaphor
18. Pattern; repeated image - symbol - idea
Synecdoche
Motif
Archetype
Anticlimax
19. Inanimate objects or abstract ideas given human characteristics
Antithesis
Personification
Ad Hominem
Oxymoron
20. Words - phrases - ideas placed side by side for effect
Personification
Juxtaposition
Anaphora
Aphorism
21. Deliberately unclear - having multiple meanings
Ambiguity
Non Sequitur
Conflict
Chiasmus
22. A form of logic that moves from the general to the specific
Deductive Reasoning
Colloquial
Personification
Conflict
23. 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.)
Rhetorical Question
Non Sequitur
Figurative Language
Zeugma
24. A comparison using like or as
Simile
Non Sequitur
Parody
Epitaph
25. Reaching for the sublime - the tone results in the absurd
Hyperbole
Dramatic Irony
Bathos
Parody
26. A formal - often pompous - speech
Onomatopoeia
Analogy
Oratory
Denotation
27. A form a logic that moves from the specific to the general
Mood
Euphemism
Inductive Reasoning
Dialect
28. A metaphor around which the entire story revolves
Point of attack
Motif
Archetype
Controlling Metaphor
29. Words that create mental pictures
Imagery
A Priori Reasoning
Characterization
Conceit
30. Scholarly - academic writing that is difficult to understand
Denotation
Deductive Reasoning
Pedantic
Oratory
31. A story that functions on the symbolic level
Denouement
Allegory
Verbal Irony
Colloquial
32. Change and growth of the character
Ambiguity
Epitaph
Assonance
Characterization
33. An unexpected outcome
Rhetoric
Controlling Metaphor
Irony
Onomatopoeia
34. Direct contrast or opposite
Antithesis
Anticlimax
Repetition
Zeugma
35. A particularly clever extended metaphor
Non Sequitur
Connotation
Conceit
Simile
36. Clues that tip the reader off as to What is to come later in the work
Thesis
Foreshadowing
Metaphor
Pun
37. A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is reversed ('Susan walked - and in rushed Mary.')
Connotation
Diction
Chiasmus
Cliche
38. The underlying message
Enumeration
Consonance
Allusion
Theme
39. Choices a character makes in relation to an obstacle (problem)
Syntax
Epitaph
Foil
Conflict
40. Using the same word or phrase for emphasis
Repetition
Personification
Antithesis
Situational Irony
41. Word order or organization
Oxymoron
Syntax
Metaphor
Exposition
42. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Paradox
Subtext
Symbol
Satire
43. A question that does not expect an explicit answer
Consonance
Satire
Syntax
Rhetorical Question
44. A story that operates on the symbolic level and teaches a lesson or moral
Homily
Foreshadowing
Inductive Reasoning
Parable
45. The manipulation of words for a specific purpose
Theme
Epiphany
Controlling Metaphor
Rhetoric
46. Character whose behavior and values contrast with those of another character
Foil
Non Sequitur
Hyperbole
Denotation
47. Describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
Homily
Colloquial
Metonymy
Aphorism
48. A numbered list
Repetition
Epigraph
Pun
Enumeration
49. The answer to a question
Conflict
Thesis
Allegory
Juxtaposition
50. A detail - image - or character type that occurs frequently in myth and literature - thought to appeal to the unconscious
Enumeration
Connotation
Understatement
Archetype
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