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Rhetoric Vocab
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logic-and-reasoning
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Oxymoron
Subtext
Epiphany
Personification
2. Inanimate objects or abstract ideas given human characteristics
Personification
Connotation
Syntax
Characterization
3. The 'unravelling' or resolution of the story - falling action
Logical Fallacy
Archetype
Characterization
Denouement
4. A conclusion drawn from presented details
Controlling Metaphor
Repetition
Anecdote
Inference
5. Statement that contradicts itself - "the more you learn the less you know"
Non Sequitur
Epigraph
Paradox
Oratory
6. Clues that tip the reader off as to What is to come later in the work
Foreshadowing
Oratory
Cliche
Aphorism
7. Technical - specialized language
Jargon
Metonymy
Exposition
Paradox
8. Time and place of a story
Parable
Hyperbole
Setting
Exposition
9. Saying one thing but meaning the opposite
Epiphany
Foreshadowing
Verbal Irony
Parallelism
10. Making a situation seem less important or serious than it is
Understatement
Imagery
Colloquial
Situational Irony
11. A moment of great revelation
Climax
Inductive Reasoning
Paradox
Epiphany
12. Where the audience knows more than the character
Dramatic Irony
Archetype
Connotation
Foreshadowing
13. Pattern; repeated image - symbol - idea
Cliche
Aphorism
Pathetic Fallacy
Motif
14. 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.)
Zeugma
Antithesis
Archetype
Controlling Metaphor
15. A play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but differ in meaning
A Priori Reasoning
Subtext
Pun
Understatement
16. Character whose behavior and values contrast with those of another character
Synecdoche
Foil
Alliteration
Juxtaposition
17. The underlying message
Setting
Repetition
Theme
Anticlimax
18. The use of slang in writing
Colloquial
Pedantic
Metonymy
Exposition
19. A form a logic that moves from the specific to the general
Thesis
Alliteration
Inductive Reasoning
Pathetic Fallacy
20. An unexpected outcome
Metaphor
Thesis
Irony
Syntax
21. Words that create mental pictures
Jargon
Denotation
Imagery
Thesis
22. A form of personification - only it is not a character in the story
Epiphany
Pathetic Fallacy
Foreshadowing
Anecdote
23. The use of a quotation at the beginning of the work which often hints at a theme
Epigraph
Characterization
Inference
Consonance
24. An inscription on a tombstone
Mood
Connotation
Antithesis
Epitaph
25. Sentences - or parts of a sentence with similar structure
Eulogy
Climax
Oratory
Parallelism
26. Describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
Onomatopoeia
Metonymy
Rhetorical Question
Deductive Reasoning
27. Type of irony in which a person seems to be praising something but actually insulting
Sarcasm
Characterization
Tone
Inductive Reasoning
28. Literary - historical - artistic reference
Epigraph
Dialect
Aphorism
Allusion
29. Same ending sounds
Diction
Anaphora
Metonymy
Consonance
30. A rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea
Ad Hominem
Homily
Subtext
Pathos
31. A comparison using like or as
Onomatopoeia
Colloquial
Simile
Non Sequitur
32. A numbered list
Climax
Logical Fallacy
Oxymoron
Enumeration
33. Form of personification - speaking to an absent or dead person or object as if it is there
Apostrophe
Tone
Syllogism
Flashback
34. Choices a character makes in relation to an obstacle (problem)
Denouement
Mood
Conflict
Irony
35. Direct contrast or opposite
Pedantic
Ad Hominem
Cliche
Antithesis
36. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Antithesis
Subtext
Inference
Parallelism
37. A conclusion that can be arrived at without any observations of the world - but relies only on logical connections between ideas
A Priori Reasoning
Understatement
Zeugma
Eulogy
38. Making something sound nicer than it is; candy-coated words
Eulogy
Antithesis
Antithesis
Euphemism
39. Change and growth of the character
Anticlimax
Mood
Controlling Metaphor
Characterization
40. Emotional response of the reader
Repetition
Deductive Reasoning
Mood
Tone
41. Point of understanding or awakening (not necessarily emotional)
Metaphor
Foil
Epigraph
Climax
42. A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts - events - episodes
Flashback
Deductive Reasoning
Cliche
Archetype
43. A formal speech praising one who has died
Inference
Symbol
Eulogy
Juxtaposition
44. When the story begins
Pun
Point of attack
Diction
Colloquial
45. A part is used to represent the whole (crown=king)
Synecdoche
Antithesis
Enumeration
Onomatopoeia
46. Same beginning sound
Alliteration
Parody
Anaphora
Inductive Reasoning
47. Reaching for the sublime - the tone results in the absurd
Colloquial
Chiasmus
Pedantic
Bathos
48. Word order or organization
Parable
Syntax
Hyperbole
Colloquial
49. Word choice
Tone
Diction
Thesis
Ambiguity
50. A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is reversed ('Susan walked - and in rushed Mary.')
Bathos
Antithesis
Enumeration
Chiasmus