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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. Time and place of a story
Satire
Situational Irony
Pathos
Setting
2. A comparison between two dissimilar ideas or things
Analogy
Consonance
Assonance
Controlling Metaphor
3. The use of a quotation at the beginning of the work which often hints at a theme
Satire
Point of attack
Epigraph
Denouement
4. Pattern; repeated image - symbol - idea
Motif
Denouement
Dramatic Irony
Exposition
5. Dictionary definition of a word
Paradox
Exposition
Denotation
Metaphor
6. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Oratory
Chiasmus
Personification
Subtext
7. Deliberately unclear - having multiple meanings
Ambiguity
Conceit
Metaphor
Symbol
8. Words - phrases - ideas placed side by side for effect
Juxtaposition
Eulogy
Exposition
Parallelism
9. A political comment through the use of humor
Subtext
Metonymy
Diction
Satire
10. A detail - image - or character type that occurs frequently in myth and literature - thought to appeal to the unconscious
Oxymoron
Exposition
Archetype
Satire
11. Reaching for the sublime - the tone results in the absurd
Rhetoric
Bathos
Eulogy
Situational Irony
12. An inference that does not follow logically from the premise (literally - does not follow)
Archetype
Antithesis
Non Sequitur
Analogy
13. 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.)
Deductive Reasoning
Pathetic Fallacy
Anecdote
Zeugma
14. Form of personification - speaking to an absent or dead person or object as if it is there
Simile
Apostrophe
Syllogism
Motif
15. The use of slang in writing
Chiasmus
Pathetic Fallacy
Paradox
Colloquial
16. A mistake in reasoning
Controlling Metaphor
Logical Fallacy
Parody
Theme
17. Scholarly - academic writing that is difficult to understand
Rhetoric
Denouement
Jargon
Pedantic
18. A comparison using like or as
Simile
Imagery
Analogy
Assonance
19. Point of understanding or awakening (not necessarily emotional)
Verbal Irony
Climax
Setting
Cliche
20. Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Colloquial
Personification
Alliteration
21. Where the audience knows more than the character
Conflict
A Priori Reasoning
Rhetoric
Dramatic Irony
22. Making something sound nicer than it is; candy-coated words
Euphemism
Epitaph
Logical Fallacy
Homily
23. A short witty statement
Verbal Irony
Rhetorical Question
Aphorism
Theme
24. Sound words - imitative harmony
Homily
Onomatopoeia
Anecdote
Parable
25. Same beginning sound
Mood
Alliteration
Verbal Irony
Aphorism
26. Unexpected outcome in the plot
Thesis
Point of attack
Situational Irony
Symbol
27. An overused expression
Logical Fallacy
Anticlimax
Connotation
Cliche
28. Statement that contradicts itself - "the more you learn the less you know"
Non Sequitur
Ad Hominem
Paradox
Jargon
29. Change and growth of the character
Characterization
Connotation
Imagery
Pathetic Fallacy
30. Same ending sounds
Allegory
Paradox
Rhetoric
Consonance
31. A comic imitation that ridicules the original. It can be mocking or gently humorous
Non Sequitur
Parody
Allegory
Epitaph
32. A metaphor which changes and grows throughout the story
Dramatic Irony
Climax
Extended Metaphor
Antithesis
33. Saying one thing but meaning the opposite
Non Sequitur
Verbal Irony
Bathos
Point of attack
34. Contrasting words placed together for effect
Pedantic
Diction
Oxymoron
Climax
35. When the reader expects a climax to occur and it doesn't happen
Foreshadowing
Point of attack
Anticlimax
Metonymy
36. Emotional definition of a word
Rhetoric
Understatement
Connotation
Denotation
37. A play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but differ in meaning
Pun
Anaphora
Onomatopoeia
Epigraph
38. The 'unravelling' or resolution of the story - falling action
Apostrophe
Non Sequitur
Oxymoron
Denouement
39. A conclusion that can be arrived at without any observations of the world - but relies only on logical connections between ideas
Irony
Enumeration
Imagery
A Priori Reasoning
40. An inscription on a tombstone
Juxtaposition
Epitaph
Dialect
Alliteration
41. Events that take place before the story begins
Exposition
Figurative Language
Climax
Juxtaposition
42. A conclusion drawn from presented details
Irony
Metonymy
Inference
Deductive Reasoning
43. A form a logic that moves from the specific to the general
Inductive Reasoning
Exposition
Verbal Irony
Syllogism
44. A formal - often pompous - speech
Parallelism
Oratory
Allegory
Sarcasm
45. Words that create mental pictures
Imagery
Controlling Metaphor
Epitaph
Paradox
46. A metaphor around which the entire story revolves
Controlling Metaphor
Climax
Allusion
Connotation
47. A story that functions on the symbolic level
Pathos
Cliche
Irony
Allegory
48. Word choice
Theme
Logical Fallacy
Verbal Irony
Diction
49. An unexpected outcome
Controlling Metaphor
Irony
Oratory
Enumeration
50. A part is used to represent the whole (crown=king)
Synecdoche
Pun
Antithesis
Flashback