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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. Scholarly - academic writing that is difficult to understand
Pedantic
Thesis
Rhetorical Question
Conceit
2. Statement that contradicts itself - "the more you learn the less you know"
Allusion
Didactic
Paradox
Epigraph
3. A political comment through the use of humor
Onomatopoeia
Characterization
Enumeration
Satire
4. Pattern; repeated image - symbol - idea
Verbal Irony
Motif
Subtext
Oratory
5. Character whose behavior and values contrast with those of another character
Assonance
Simile
Foil
Theme
6. A story that operates on the symbolic level and teaches a lesson or moral
Colloquial
Pathetic Fallacy
Parable
Ambiguity
7. Attitude the narrator wants the reader to take toward a setting - character - or idea
Epiphany
Allegory
Dialect
Tone
8. When the reader expects a climax to occur and it doesn't happen
Allusion
Repetition
Archetype
Anticlimax
9. The use of a quotation at the beginning of the work which often hints at a theme
Situational Irony
Epigraph
Syntax
Repetition
10. The recreation of regional spoken language
Dialect
Inference
Non Sequitur
Satire
11. A metaphor which changes and grows throughout the story
Extended Metaphor
Pathetic Fallacy
Allusion
Subtext
12. Words which evoke sorrow
Assonance
Eulogy
Dramatic Irony
Pathos
13. A comic imitation that ridicules the original. It can be mocking or gently humorous
Parody
Setting
Rhetoric
Anticlimax
14. A part is used to represent the whole (crown=king)
Inference
Motif
Simile
Synecdoche
15. A question that does not expect an explicit answer
A Priori Reasoning
Subtext
Rhetorical Question
Satire
16. Ashort account of an interesting or humorous incident - intended to illustrate or support some point
Diction
Antithesis
Theme
Anecdote
17. A rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea
Point of attack
Ad Hominem
Enumeration
Oxymoron
18. Describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
Assonance
Parable
Pathos
Metonymy
19. Reaching for the sublime - the tone results in the absurd
Bathos
Denotation
Non Sequitur
Verbal Irony
20. Words that create mental pictures
Imagery
Parody
Controlling Metaphor
Rhetoric
21. Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Imagery
Extended Metaphor
Parody
22. A direct comparison
Metaphor
Simile
Foil
Didactic
23. A form of personification - only it is not a character in the story
Parallelism
Subtext
Ambiguity
Pathetic Fallacy
24. When the story begins
Subtext
Rhetoric
Point of attack
Theme
25. Making a situation seem less important or serious than it is
Zeugma
Allusion
Understatement
Conflict
26. A comparison between two dissimilar ideas or things
Analogy
Foil
Situational Irony
Dramatic Irony
27. A play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but differ in meaning
Colloquial
Imagery
Pun
Setting
28. Saying one thing but meaning the opposite
Conflict
Verbal Irony
Subtext
Metaphor
29. Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences
Point of attack
Anaphora
Allegory
Conflict
30. Contrasting words placed together for effect
Consonance
Oxymoron
Didactic
Chiasmus
31. Time and place of a story
Setting
Dramatic Irony
Controlling Metaphor
Connotation
32. Choices a character makes in relation to an obstacle (problem)
Paradox
Imagery
Conflict
Homily
33. Point of understanding or awakening (not necessarily emotional)
Epigraph
Climax
Dramatic Irony
Extended Metaphor
34. A conclusion drawn from presented details
Conceit
Rhetoric
Mood
Inference
35. Repetition of vowel sounds
Dramatic Irony
Assonance
Aphorism
Syllogism
36. Inanimate objects or abstract ideas given human characteristics
Conceit
Diction
Rhetoric
Personification
37. A moment of great revelation
Epiphany
Allegory
Situational Irony
Subtext
38. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
Didactic
Deductive Reasoning
Theme
Alliteration
39. Form of personification - speaking to an absent or dead person or object as if it is there
Apostrophe
Characterization
Inductive Reasoning
Diction
40. Words - phrases - ideas placed side by side for effect
Parody
Colloquial
Irony
Juxtaposition
41. Type of irony in which a person seems to be praising something but actually insulting
Rhetorical Question
Sarcasm
Assonance
Denotation
42. Same beginning sound
Assonance
Analogy
Alliteration
Verbal Irony
43. An inference that does not follow logically from the premise (literally - does not follow)
Non Sequitur
Extended Metaphor
Pedantic
Chiasmus
44. Clues that tip the reader off as to What is to come later in the work
Diction
Oratory
Theme
Foreshadowing
45. A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts - events - episodes
Flashback
Synecdoche
Understatement
Aphorism
46. Where the audience knows more than the character
Eulogy
Mood
Dramatic Irony
Deductive Reasoning
47. Making something sound nicer than it is; candy-coated words
Euphemism
Ad Hominem
Connotation
Setting
48. A detail - image - or character type that occurs frequently in myth and literature - thought to appeal to the unconscious
Archetype
Chiasmus
Understatement
Alliteration
49. The manipulation of words for a specific purpose
Conceit
Subtext
Rhetoric
Mood
50. Sound words - imitative harmony
Enumeration
Zeugma
Onomatopoeia
Apostrophe