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Rhetoric Vocab
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logic-and-reasoning
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1. A conclusion drawn from presented details
Syntax
Climax
Juxtaposition
Inference
2. Contrasting words placed together for effect
Enumeration
Epiphany
Oratory
Oxymoron
3. The answer to a question
Thesis
Rhetoric
Analogy
Subtext
4. A part is used to represent the whole (crown=king)
Synecdoche
Logical Fallacy
Diction
Didactic
5. Events that take place before the story begins
Aphorism
Satire
Exposition
Subtext
6. Same beginning sound
Metonymy
Mood
Alliteration
Oxymoron
7. Literary - historical - artistic reference
Allusion
Allegory
Pathos
Epigraph
8. Inanimate objects or abstract ideas given human characteristics
Personification
Diction
Didactic
A Priori Reasoning
9. A political comment through the use of humor
Diction
Syntax
Characterization
Satire
10. Where the audience knows more than the character
Irony
Personification
Dramatic Irony
Juxtaposition
11. Scholarly - academic writing that is difficult to understand
Pedantic
Aphorism
Characterization
Hyperbole
12. Reaching for the sublime - the tone results in the absurd
Characterization
Cliche
Situational Irony
Bathos
13. Words that create mental pictures
Imagery
Rhetoric
Ad Hominem
Pun
14. An overused expression
Cliche
Assonance
Denouement
Epigraph
15. Unexpected outcome in the plot
Epiphany
Pathos
Situational Irony
Didactic
16. An inscription on a tombstone
Epitaph
Parallelism
Ad Hominem
Onomatopoeia
17. Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Subtext
Non Sequitur
Imagery
18. When the story begins
Epitaph
Understatement
Point of attack
Consonance
19. Sentences - or parts of a sentence with similar structure
Tone
Dramatic Irony
Personification
Parallelism
20. The use of slang in writing
Parable
Rhetoric
Colloquial
Sarcasm
21. The manipulation of words for a specific purpose
Rhetoric
Tone
Juxtaposition
Imagery
22. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
Foil
Syntax
Climax
Didactic
23. A conclusion that can be arrived at without any observations of the world - but relies only on logical connections between ideas
Euphemism
Logical Fallacy
A Priori Reasoning
Subtext
24. Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences
Eulogy
Connotation
Anaphora
Bathos
25. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Rhetoric
Subtext
Metonymy
Synecdoche
26. Same ending sounds
Exposition
Consonance
Enumeration
Subtext
27. Ashort account of an interesting or humorous incident - intended to illustrate or support some point
Anecdote
Apostrophe
Eulogy
Climax
28. Word choice
Diction
Conceit
Consonance
Thesis
29. A story that operates on the symbolic level and teaches a lesson or moral
Parable
Alliteration
Sarcasm
Subtext
30. A comparison between two dissimilar ideas or things
Denouement
Non Sequitur
Analogy
Aphorism
31. Technical - specialized language
Pathos
Synecdoche
Jargon
Eulogy
32. A story that functions on the symbolic level
Consonance
Apostrophe
Allegory
Connotation
33. Pattern; repeated image - symbol - idea
Pathos
Zeugma
Anecdote
Motif
34. A comic imitation that ridicules the original. It can be mocking or gently humorous
Aphorism
Parody
Epiphany
Hyperbole
35. A form a logic that moves from the specific to the general
Inductive Reasoning
Parable
Denouement
Assonance
36. A mistake in reasoning
Logical Fallacy
Deductive Reasoning
Inference
Apostrophe
37. Making something sound nicer than it is; candy-coated words
Euphemism
Motif
Metaphor
Oratory
38. Repetition of vowel sounds
Eulogy
Alliteration
Allusion
Assonance
39. Word order or organization
Ambiguity
Syntax
Anecdote
Parable
40. A metaphor which changes and grows throughout the story
Extended Metaphor
Didactic
Allusion
Antithesis
41. The underlying message
Theme
Onomatopoeia
Epigraph
Rhetoric
42. A rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea
Diction
Personification
Ad Hominem
Deductive Reasoning
43. The use of a quotation at the beginning of the work which often hints at a theme
Epigraph
Subtext
Anecdote
Euphemism
44. Words which evoke sorrow
Anticlimax
Pathos
Synecdoche
Zeugma
45. Sound words - imitative harmony
Exposition
Onomatopoeia
Assonance
Point of attack
46. A formal argument that consists of a major premise - a minor one - and a conclusion
Epigraph
Aphorism
Figurative Language
Syllogism
47. The 'unravelling' or resolution of the story - falling action
Motif
Rhetorical Question
Epigraph
Denouement
48. A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is reversed ('Susan walked - and in rushed Mary.')
Chiasmus
Inference
Alliteration
Motif
49. A formal - often pompous - speech
Oratory
Analogy
Motif
Assonance
50. An inference that does not follow logically from the premise (literally - does not follow)
Non Sequitur
Epitaph
Syllogism
Syntax
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