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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. A short witty statement
Mood
Verbal Irony
Aphorism
Flashback
2. Repetition of vowel sounds
Parody
Assonance
Repetition
Ad Hominem
3. Word choice
Denouement
Imagery
Hyperbole
Diction
4. Sentences - or parts of a sentence with similar structure
Parallelism
Denouement
Synecdoche
Situational Irony
5. A numbered list
Enumeration
Juxtaposition
Syntax
Subtext
6. Direct contrast or opposite
Antithesis
Irony
Flashback
Logical Fallacy
7. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
Theme
Didactic
Epiphany
Allusion
8. Inanimate objects or abstract ideas given human characteristics
Pedantic
Personification
Figurative Language
Didactic
9. Words that create mental pictures
Paradox
Alliteration
Imagery
Tone
10. A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts - events - episodes
Flashback
Euphemism
Homily
Theme
11. A story that functions on the symbolic level
Dialect
Allegory
Mood
Ad Hominem
12. The use of a quotation at the beginning of the work which often hints at a theme
Deductive Reasoning
Epigraph
Epiphany
Alliteration
13. The recreation of regional spoken language
Epitaph
Dialect
Synecdoche
Motif
14. A question that does not expect an explicit answer
Rhetorical Question
Didactic
Archetype
Flashback
15. A particularly clever extended metaphor
Flashback
Euphemism
Deductive Reasoning
Conceit
16. Emotional response of the reader
Denotation
Mood
Imagery
Pathetic Fallacy
17. A form of personification - only it is not a character in the story
Simile
Antithesis
Dialect
Pathetic Fallacy
18. An inscription on a tombstone
Motif
Dialect
Epitaph
Situational Irony
19. Emotional definition of a word
Setting
Connotation
Parallelism
Symbol
20. Words which evoke sorrow
Pathos
Oratory
Verbal Irony
Antithesis
21. The use of slang in writing
Hyperbole
Sarcasm
Colloquial
Analogy
22. A political comment through the use of humor
Simile
Satire
Point of attack
Parallelism
23. Time and place of a story
Eulogy
Setting
Allegory
Colloquial
24. An inference that does not follow logically from the premise (literally - does not follow)
Non Sequitur
Bathos
Understatement
Homily
25. Literary - historical - artistic reference
Inference
Allusion
A Priori Reasoning
Satire
26. A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is reversed ('Susan walked - and in rushed Mary.')
Archetype
Chiasmus
Motif
Deductive Reasoning
27. A metaphor which changes and grows throughout the story
Dramatic Irony
Subtext
Anticlimax
Extended Metaphor
28. Change and growth of the character
Thesis
Characterization
Sarcasm
Symbol
29. The manipulation of words for a specific purpose
Subtext
Rhetoric
Non Sequitur
Characterization
30. Deliberately unclear - having multiple meanings
Motif
Non Sequitur
Antithesis
Ambiguity
31. The 'unravelling' or resolution of the story - falling action
Antithesis
Denouement
Pathos
Mood
32. Unexpected outcome in the plot
Ambiguity
Didactic
Archetype
Situational Irony
33. Same ending sounds
Ambiguity
Anticlimax
Eulogy
Consonance
34. Reaching for the sublime - the tone results in the absurd
Bathos
Metonymy
Didactic
Ad Hominem
35. Describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
Rhetorical Question
Metonymy
Epigraph
Paradox
36. A moment of great revelation
Epiphany
Subtext
Verbal Irony
Characterization
37. Making a situation seem less important or serious than it is
Sarcasm
Motif
Euphemism
Understatement
38. Direct contrast or opposite
Theme
Didactic
Consonance
Antithesis
39. A formal - often pompous - speech
Oratory
Archetype
A Priori Reasoning
Zeugma
40. A rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea
Antithesis
Ad Hominem
Exposition
Apostrophe
41. Literary devices that enable an author to operate on levels other than the literal (simile - metaphor - etc)
Mood
Figurative Language
Antithesis
Oratory
42. Form of personification - speaking to an absent or dead person or object as if it is there
Thesis
Apostrophe
Parody
Extended Metaphor
43. Contrasting words placed together for effect
Allusion
Oxymoron
Pathos
Exposition
44. When the story begins
Point of attack
Thesis
Metonymy
Apostrophe
45. Statement that contradicts itself - "the more you learn the less you know"
Inference
Zeugma
Analogy
Paradox
46. Sound words - imitative harmony
Onomatopoeia
Connotation
Hyperbole
Deductive Reasoning
47. A formal argument that consists of a major premise - a minor one - and a conclusion
Syllogism
Assonance
Consonance
Simile
48. Type of irony in which a person seems to be praising something but actually insulting
Denotation
Point of attack
Subtext
Sarcasm
49. A form of logic that moves from the general to the specific
Figurative Language
Inductive Reasoning
Antithesis
Deductive Reasoning
50. A comparison using like or as
Simile
Rhetoric
Extended Metaphor
Consonance