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Rhetoric Vocab
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logic-and-reasoning
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Words that create mental pictures
Paradox
Imagery
Logical Fallacy
Anecdote
2. Making something sound nicer than it is; candy-coated words
Euphemism
Jargon
Satire
Eulogy
3. Repetition of vowel sounds
Assonance
Personification
Repetition
Metonymy
4. The underlying message
Assonance
Exposition
Theme
Understatement
5. Time and place of a story
Conceit
Setting
Pun
Controlling Metaphor
6. A story that functions on the symbolic level
Point of attack
Cliche
Allegory
Pathetic Fallacy
7. Unexpected outcome in the plot
Situational Irony
Understatement
Bathos
Subtext
8. A particularly clever extended metaphor
Dramatic Irony
Conceit
Consonance
Satire
9. A mistake in reasoning
Logical Fallacy
Juxtaposition
Allegory
Situational Irony
10. A moment of great revelation
Juxtaposition
Epiphany
Repetition
Euphemism
11. The 'unravelling' or resolution of the story - falling action
Archetype
Anticlimax
Chiasmus
Denouement
12. When the reader expects a climax to occur and it doesn't happen
Pun
Pathos
Anticlimax
Allusion
13. Inanimate objects or abstract ideas given human characteristics
Didactic
Personification
Parallelism
Parody
14. A story that operates on the symbolic level and teaches a lesson or moral
Chiasmus
Parable
Parallelism
Metaphor
15. Character whose behavior and values contrast with those of another character
Alliteration
Paradox
Foil
Parody
16. Saying one thing but meaning the opposite
Juxtaposition
Anecdote
Didactic
Verbal Irony
17. A comic imitation that ridicules the original. It can be mocking or gently humorous
Denouement
Symbol
Archetype
Parody
18. Direct contrast or opposite
Antithesis
Anecdote
Parable
Climax
19. A numbered list
Anaphora
Enumeration
Hyperbole
Cliche
20. Contrasting words placed together for effect
Oxymoron
Aphorism
Allusion
Alliteration
21. Scholarly - academic writing that is difficult to understand
Zeugma
Jargon
Pedantic
Parable
22. A comparison using like or as
Epiphany
Subtext
Setting
Simile
23. An unexpected outcome
Aphorism
Paradox
Antithesis
Irony
24. Emotional definition of a word
Alliteration
Non Sequitur
Connotation
Extended Metaphor
25. A part is used to represent the whole (crown=king)
Synecdoche
Conflict
Symbol
Pathos
26. Emotional response of the reader
Satire
Dramatic Irony
Epigraph
Mood
27. Technical - specialized language
Dramatic Irony
Archetype
Jargon
Consonance
28. Statement that contradicts itself - "the more you learn the less you know"
Subtext
Parody
Paradox
Imagery
29. Ashort account of an interesting or humorous incident - intended to illustrate or support some point
Assonance
Anecdote
Non Sequitur
Consonance
30. Deliberately unclear - having multiple meanings
Parallelism
Ambiguity
Simile
Zeugma
31. Sound words - imitative harmony
Denouement
Syllogism
Onomatopoeia
Chiasmus
32. A form of logic that moves from the general to the specific
Climax
Subtext
Irony
Deductive Reasoning
33. The use of a quotation at the beginning of the work which often hints at a theme
Foreshadowing
Dramatic Irony
Epigraph
Pun
34. A word that represents a larger idea or concept
Extended Metaphor
A Priori Reasoning
Flashback
Symbol
35. A form a logic that moves from the specific to the general
Alliteration
Epiphany
Thesis
Inductive Reasoning
36. Events that take place before the story begins
Denouement
Metaphor
Exposition
Inference
37. A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is reversed ('Susan walked - and in rushed Mary.')
Colloquial
Chiasmus
Symbol
Epigraph
38. Dictionary definition of a word
Denotation
Motif
Rhetoric
Didactic
39. A sermon or moralistic lecture
Homily
Connotation
Epiphany
Metonymy
40. A direct comparison
Bathos
Cliche
Logical Fallacy
Metaphor
41. A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts - events - episodes
Flashback
Logical Fallacy
Imagery
Pedantic
42. Literary devices that enable an author to operate on levels other than the literal (simile - metaphor - etc)
A Priori Reasoning
Antithesis
Figurative Language
Onomatopoeia
43. Form of personification - speaking to an absent or dead person or object as if it is there
Denouement
Apostrophe
Flashback
Homily
44. Word order or organization
Syntax
Inductive Reasoning
Conceit
Extended Metaphor
45. The recreation of regional spoken language
Antithesis
Enumeration
Dialect
Inductive Reasoning
46. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
Didactic
Sarcasm
Simile
Repetition
47. A form of personification - only it is not a character in the story
Conflict
Subtext
Pathetic Fallacy
Understatement
48. Using the same word or phrase for emphasis
Controlling Metaphor
Repetition
Juxtaposition
Setting
49. The use of slang in writing
Non Sequitur
Colloquial
Anecdote
Mood
50. A conclusion drawn from presented details
Inference
Metaphor
Simile
Allusion