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Rhetoric Vocab
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logic-and-reasoning
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Scholarly - academic writing that is difficult to understand
Pedantic
Parable
Anecdote
Archetype
2. A play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but differ in meaning
Controlling Metaphor
Deductive Reasoning
Connotation
Pun
3. Clues that tip the reader off as to What is to come later in the work
Denotation
Foreshadowing
Understatement
Subtext
4. Type of irony in which a person seems to be praising something but actually insulting
Exposition
Foil
Sarcasm
Synecdoche
5. 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.)
Enumeration
Subtext
Zeugma
Foreshadowing
6. Using the same word or phrase for emphasis
Alliteration
Jargon
Epitaph
Repetition
7. Pattern; repeated image - symbol - idea
Allegory
Foreshadowing
Motif
Simile
8. Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences
Anecdote
Oxymoron
Anaphora
Parable
9. Events that take place before the story begins
Parody
Exposition
Epiphany
Zeugma
10. Words which evoke sorrow
Conceit
Conflict
Pathos
Inference
11. When the story begins
Thesis
Denotation
Point of attack
Ad Hominem
12. A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts - events - episodes
Flashback
Thesis
Chiasmus
Epiphany
13. A story that operates on the symbolic level and teaches a lesson or moral
Rhetorical Question
Parable
Euphemism
Anaphora
14. Technical - specialized language
Jargon
Euphemism
Bathos
Homily
15. A numbered list
Foil
Diction
Enumeration
Oxymoron
16. Making a situation seem less important or serious than it is
Understatement
Paradox
Allusion
Sarcasm
17. An inscription on a tombstone
Juxtaposition
Alliteration
Epitaph
Diction
18. Reaching for the sublime - the tone results in the absurd
Rhetoric
Dialect
Bathos
Characterization
19. A word that represents a larger idea or concept
Mood
Extended Metaphor
Symbol
Epiphany
20. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
Bathos
Oxymoron
Pathos
Didactic
21. When the reader expects a climax to occur and it doesn't happen
Hyperbole
Anticlimax
Pun
Denotation
22. A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is reversed ('Susan walked - and in rushed Mary.')
Allegory
Situational Irony
Theme
Chiasmus
23. Where the audience knows more than the character
Parable
Syntax
Logical Fallacy
Dramatic Irony
24. Word order or organization
Syntax
Inference
Anticlimax
A Priori Reasoning
25. Words - phrases - ideas placed side by side for effect
Imagery
Juxtaposition
Metonymy
Oratory
26. A form a logic that moves from the specific to the general
Foreshadowing
Epitaph
Inductive Reasoning
Denouement
27. The underlying message
Homily
Theme
Verbal Irony
Logical Fallacy
28. Direct contrast or opposite
Logical Fallacy
Personification
Antithesis
Bathos
29. A moment of great revelation
Homily
Mood
Epiphany
Anecdote
30. The 'unravelling' or resolution of the story - falling action
Thesis
Denouement
Oratory
Anticlimax
31. A sermon or moralistic lecture
Onomatopoeia
Imagery
Subtext
Homily
32. The answer to a question
Cliche
Syllogism
Metonymy
Thesis
33. A political comment through the use of humor
Repetition
Inference
Euphemism
Satire
34. Saying one thing but meaning the opposite
Situational Irony
Characterization
Inference
Verbal Irony
35. A comparison using like or as
Simile
Epigraph
Parallelism
Verbal Irony
36. Making something sound nicer than it is; candy-coated words
Euphemism
Foil
Eulogy
Analogy
37. Form of personification - speaking to an absent or dead person or object as if it is there
Epiphany
Apostrophe
Conceit
Motif
38. Ashort account of an interesting or humorous incident - intended to illustrate or support some point
Inference
Figurative Language
Anecdote
Metonymy
39. A part is used to represent the whole (crown=king)
Connotation
Synecdoche
Sarcasm
Denotation
40. Change and growth of the character
Sarcasm
Foreshadowing
Characterization
Denouement
41. Exaggeration
Tone
Theme
Hyperbole
Allusion
42. Same beginning sound
Alliteration
Pedantic
Situational Irony
Anaphora
43. A comparison between two dissimilar ideas or things
Extended Metaphor
Analogy
Subtext
Pun
44. The recreation of regional spoken language
Dialect
Exposition
Motif
Allusion
45. Literary - historical - artistic reference
Allusion
Climax
Situational Irony
Eulogy
46. Same ending sounds
Pathos
Consonance
Situational Irony
Theme
47. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Subtext
Epiphany
Syllogism
Point of attack
48. Emotional definition of a word
Assonance
Exposition
Paradox
Connotation
49. Word choice
Rhetoric
Epiphany
Diction
Parody
50. Contrasting words placed together for effect
Oxymoron
Parody
Anaphora
Foreshadowing