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Rhetoric Vocab
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logic-and-reasoning
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1. Direct contrast or opposite
A Priori Reasoning
Consonance
Antithesis
Thesis
2. Where the audience knows more than the character
Synecdoche
Assonance
Dramatic Irony
Bathos
3. Time and place of a story
Homily
Syntax
A Priori Reasoning
Setting
4. Saying one thing but meaning the opposite
Verbal Irony
Aphorism
Epitaph
Metonymy
5. Deliberately unclear - having multiple meanings
Climax
Allusion
Ambiguity
Mood
6. A moment of great revelation
Epiphany
Exposition
Theme
Inference
7. Sentences - or parts of a sentence with similar structure
Enumeration
Parallelism
Irony
Oxymoron
8. Type of irony in which a person seems to be praising something but actually insulting
Rhetoric
Ambiguity
Consonance
Sarcasm
9. Describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
Satire
Logical Fallacy
Consonance
Metonymy
10. When the reader expects a climax to occur and it doesn't happen
Verbal Irony
Hyperbole
Anticlimax
Cliche
11. Making a situation seem less important or serious than it is
Alliteration
Allegory
Enumeration
Understatement
12. Dictionary definition of a word
Imagery
Pathos
Denotation
Cliche
13. The recreation of regional spoken language
Syllogism
Syntax
Personification
Dialect
14. A political comment through the use of humor
Pathos
Satire
Parallelism
Conceit
15. A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts - events - episodes
Flashback
Pedantic
Characterization
Onomatopoeia
16. A conclusion drawn from presented details
Inference
Imagery
Denouement
Figurative Language
17. Emotional response of the reader
Verbal Irony
Mood
Satire
Non Sequitur
18. Same beginning sound
Alliteration
Connotation
Anticlimax
Exposition
19. A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is reversed ('Susan walked - and in rushed Mary.')
Chiasmus
Pathos
Analogy
Climax
20. Pattern; repeated image - symbol - idea
Dramatic Irony
Analogy
Climax
Motif
21. The use of slang in writing
Anecdote
Colloquial
Syllogism
Epiphany
22. A metaphor around which the entire story revolves
Antithesis
Repetition
Syllogism
Controlling Metaphor
23. A story that operates on the symbolic level and teaches a lesson or moral
Allegory
Point of attack
Parable
Alliteration
24. A short witty statement
Aphorism
Pathetic Fallacy
Denotation
Anecdote
25. Character whose behavior and values contrast with those of another character
Foil
Theme
Pun
Deductive Reasoning
26. A formal speech praising one who has died
Eulogy
Verbal Irony
Parallelism
Allusion
27. Words - phrases - ideas placed side by side for effect
Repetition
Juxtaposition
Foreshadowing
Inference
28. A formal argument that consists of a major premise - a minor one - and a conclusion
Syllogism
Metaphor
Anecdote
Archetype
29. Direct contrast or opposite
Antithesis
Satire
Onomatopoeia
Zeugma
30. Choices a character makes in relation to an obstacle (problem)
Conflict
Analogy
Simile
Chiasmus
31. A play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but differ in meaning
Pun
Epigraph
Climax
Oratory
32. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Anticlimax
Onomatopoeia
Subtext
Pathetic Fallacy
33. A word that represents a larger idea or concept
Rhetorical Question
Subtext
Symbol
Connotation
34. Words which evoke sorrow
Foil
Pathos
Dramatic Irony
Non Sequitur
35. Statement that contradicts itself - "the more you learn the less you know"
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Sarcasm
Paradox
36. A particularly clever extended metaphor
Point of attack
Didactic
Enumeration
Conceit
37. A form of personification - only it is not a character in the story
Analogy
Pathetic Fallacy
Characterization
Allusion
38. Same ending sounds
Simile
Consonance
Enumeration
Denotation
39. Unexpected outcome in the plot
Situational Irony
Inference
Alliteration
Zeugma
40. Inanimate objects or abstract ideas given human characteristics
Personification
Denouement
Pathos
Subtext
41. The answer to a question
Motif
Metonymy
Thesis
Mood
42. The 'unravelling' or resolution of the story - falling action
Point of attack
Denouement
Ambiguity
Simile
43. A question that does not expect an explicit answer
Subtext
Dialect
Rhetorical Question
Archetype
44. Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences
Conceit
Oratory
Parody
Anaphora
45. A detail - image - or character type that occurs frequently in myth and literature - thought to appeal to the unconscious
Denotation
Syllogism
Archetype
Juxtaposition
46. A rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea
Repetition
Metaphor
Syllogism
Ad Hominem
47. Word order or organization
Colloquial
Inference
Syntax
Denouement
48. Words that create mental pictures
Chiasmus
Symbol
Bathos
Imagery
49. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Epitaph
Subtext
Chiasmus
Oratory
50. Events that take place before the story begins
Consonance
Exposition
Non Sequitur
Eulogy
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