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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. Direct contrast or opposite
Controlling Metaphor
Sarcasm
Antithesis
Mood
2. A rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea
Verbal Irony
Homily
Ad Hominem
Climax
3. A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is reversed ('Susan walked - and in rushed Mary.')
Sarcasm
Anecdote
Chiasmus
Allegory
4. Saying one thing but meaning the opposite
Verbal Irony
Climax
Parallelism
Logical Fallacy
5. Sound words - imitative harmony
Antithesis
Deductive Reasoning
Sarcasm
Onomatopoeia
6. A sermon or moralistic lecture
Denotation
Sarcasm
Homily
Parable
7. Form of personification - speaking to an absent or dead person or object as if it is there
Apostrophe
Antithesis
Dialect
Anticlimax
8. Making a situation seem less important or serious than it is
Anaphora
Understatement
Bathos
Foreshadowing
9. The 'unravelling' or resolution of the story - falling action
Figurative Language
Inductive Reasoning
Epitaph
Denouement
10. A direct comparison
Homily
Oratory
Motif
Metaphor
11. Repetition of vowel sounds
Logical Fallacy
Assonance
Motif
Imagery
12. Emotional response of the reader
Ambiguity
Understatement
Denotation
Mood
13. An overused expression
Cliche
Controlling Metaphor
Pun
Juxtaposition
14. Emotional definition of a word
Simile
Epitaph
Connotation
Conceit
15. The underlying message
Deductive Reasoning
Theme
Verbal Irony
Setting
16. Technical - specialized language
Exposition
Metonymy
Jargon
Oratory
17. The manipulation of words for a specific purpose
Rhetoric
Assonance
Allegory
Hyperbole
18. A story that operates on the symbolic level and teaches a lesson or moral
Anecdote
Parable
Rhetorical Question
Inductive Reasoning
19. Word order or organization
Syntax
Tone
Point of attack
Inductive Reasoning
20. Events that take place before the story begins
Exposition
Irony
Subtext
Denouement
21. Direct contrast or opposite
Enumeration
Antithesis
Understatement
Zeugma
22. Clues that tip the reader off as to What is to come later in the work
Pathetic Fallacy
Symbol
Foreshadowing
Juxtaposition
23. A form a logic that moves from the specific to the general
Inductive Reasoning
Oratory
Understatement
A Priori Reasoning
24. A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts - events - episodes
Anticlimax
Flashback
Dramatic Irony
Homily
25. A numbered list
Enumeration
Repetition
Pathetic Fallacy
Hyperbole
26. Time and place of a story
Euphemism
Figurative Language
Setting
Allegory
27. Where the audience knows more than the character
Assonance
Motif
Chiasmus
Dramatic Irony
28. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Tone
Sarcasm
Flashback
Subtext
29. Point of understanding or awakening (not necessarily emotional)
Antithesis
Climax
Connotation
Understatement
30. A metaphor which changes and grows throughout the story
Extended Metaphor
Jargon
Conflict
Conceit
31. A metaphor around which the entire story revolves
Point of attack
Ambiguity
Controlling Metaphor
Parallelism
32. Literary - historical - artistic reference
Deductive Reasoning
Irony
Controlling Metaphor
Allusion
33. Statement that contradicts itself - "the more you learn the less you know"
Conflict
Epitaph
Mood
Paradox
34. An inscription on a tombstone
Climax
Rhetorical Question
Epitaph
Oxymoron
35. A part is used to represent the whole (crown=king)
Analogy
Synecdoche
Inference
Logical Fallacy
36. Ashort account of an interesting or humorous incident - intended to illustrate or support some point
Epitaph
Anecdote
Deductive Reasoning
Motif
37. The use of a quotation at the beginning of the work which often hints at a theme
Motif
Satire
Epigraph
Exposition
38. When the reader expects a climax to occur and it doesn't happen
Anticlimax
Sarcasm
Motif
Synecdoche
39. Deliberately unclear - having multiple meanings
Subtext
Ambiguity
Anaphora
Metaphor
40. A comic imitation that ridicules the original. It can be mocking or gently humorous
Metaphor
Homily
Parody
Assonance
41. Change and growth of the character
Simile
Tone
Apostrophe
Characterization
42. Sentences - or parts of a sentence with similar structure
Motif
Parallelism
Jargon
Extended Metaphor
43. Contrasting words placed together for effect
Alliteration
Non Sequitur
Oxymoron
Thesis
44. A political comment through the use of humor
Satire
Motif
Euphemism
Archetype
45. Dictionary definition of a word
Denotation
A Priori Reasoning
Controlling Metaphor
Foil
46. A comparison between two dissimilar ideas or things
Denotation
Aphorism
Analogy
Flashback
47. An unexpected outcome
Irony
Pun
Metaphor
Anticlimax
48. A detail - image - or character type that occurs frequently in myth and literature - thought to appeal to the unconscious
Archetype
Pathetic Fallacy
Jargon
Logical Fallacy
49. A play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but differ in meaning
Pun
Subtext
Conceit
Pedantic
50. Inanimate objects or abstract ideas given human characteristics
Personification
Inference
Bathos
Metaphor