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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. A comparison between two dissimilar ideas or things
Analogy
Dramatic Irony
Assonance
Tone
2. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
Didactic
Jargon
Allusion
Sarcasm
3. 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.)
Connotation
Pathos
Metonymy
Zeugma
4. Pattern; repeated image - symbol - idea
Synecdoche
Sarcasm
Simile
Motif
5. A question that does not expect an explicit answer
Pathos
Rhetorical Question
Controlling Metaphor
Simile
6. Change and growth of the character
Characterization
Anecdote
Enumeration
Didactic
7. Point of understanding or awakening (not necessarily emotional)
Flashback
Climax
Pedantic
Rhetoric
8. Time and place of a story
Rhetorical Question
Climax
Pathetic Fallacy
Setting
9. A story that functions on the symbolic level
Thesis
Allegory
Jargon
Parable
10. Dictionary definition of a word
Denotation
Point of attack
Epitaph
Dialect
11. Reaching for the sublime - the tone results in the absurd
Pun
Chiasmus
Bathos
Epitaph
12. Words which evoke sorrow
Pathos
Jargon
A Priori Reasoning
Epiphany
13. Inanimate objects or abstract ideas given human characteristics
Pathos
Personification
Pedantic
Rhetoric
14. An inscription on a tombstone
Zeugma
Bathos
Eulogy
Epitaph
15. Using the same word or phrase for emphasis
Antithesis
Repetition
Subtext
Situational Irony
16. Literary devices that enable an author to operate on levels other than the literal (simile - metaphor - etc)
Foil
Jargon
Inference
Figurative Language
17. A comparison using like or as
A Priori Reasoning
Pun
Simile
Paradox
18. Emotional definition of a word
Apostrophe
Imagery
Dialect
Connotation
19. A part is used to represent the whole (crown=king)
Connotation
Cliche
Euphemism
Synecdoche
20. Word order or organization
Conflict
Chiasmus
Syntax
Inference
21. A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is reversed ('Susan walked - and in rushed Mary.')
Chiasmus
Flashback
Diction
Analogy
22. A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts - events - episodes
Tone
Flashback
Climax
Dialect
23. Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Subtext
Setting
24. Literary - historical - artistic reference
Allusion
Inductive Reasoning
Ad Hominem
Epiphany
25. Choices a character makes in relation to an obstacle (problem)
Zeugma
Characterization
Conflict
Consonance
26. A formal speech praising one who has died
Inductive Reasoning
Conflict
Eulogy
Rhetorical Question
27. Words - phrases - ideas placed side by side for effect
Juxtaposition
Allegory
Irony
Extended Metaphor
28. Saying one thing but meaning the opposite
Verbal Irony
Synecdoche
Epiphany
Metonymy
29. Same beginning sound
Characterization
Irony
Alliteration
Simile
30. An unexpected outcome
Irony
Eulogy
Simile
Onomatopoeia
31. Direct contrast or opposite
Parable
Syntax
Antithesis
Verbal Irony
32. A form of personification - only it is not a character in the story
Pathetic Fallacy
Epigraph
Zeugma
Jargon
33. A formal argument that consists of a major premise - a minor one - and a conclusion
Syllogism
Anecdote
Zeugma
Figurative Language
34. Sentences - or parts of a sentence with similar structure
Anaphora
Parallelism
Parody
Sarcasm
35. Statement that contradicts itself - "the more you learn the less you know"
Subtext
Paradox
Subtext
Inference
36. A rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea
Ad Hominem
Epitaph
Conceit
Eulogy
37. Type of irony in which a person seems to be praising something but actually insulting
Sarcasm
Syntax
Conflict
Antithesis
38. Events that take place before the story begins
Understatement
Exposition
Point of attack
Symbol
39. Contrasting words placed together for effect
Tone
Oxymoron
Anecdote
Chiasmus
40. Emotional response of the reader
Pedantic
Pun
Mood
Syllogism
41. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Chiasmus
Anticlimax
Deductive Reasoning
Subtext
42. A formal - often pompous - speech
Ad Hominem
Anaphora
Exposition
Oratory
43. A play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but differ in meaning
Figurative Language
Syntax
Controlling Metaphor
Pun
44. Scholarly - academic writing that is difficult to understand
Pedantic
Parallelism
Personification
Onomatopoeia
45. A conclusion that can be arrived at without any observations of the world - but relies only on logical connections between ideas
Metonymy
Climax
A Priori Reasoning
Conflict
46. Word choice
Motif
Simile
Metonymy
Diction
47. Unexpected outcome in the plot
Situational Irony
Exposition
Thesis
Setting
48. A story that operates on the symbolic level and teaches a lesson or moral
Antithesis
Ambiguity
Imagery
Parable
49. Making something sound nicer than it is; candy-coated words
Parody
Hyperbole
Figurative Language
Euphemism
50. The use of a quotation at the beginning of the work which often hints at a theme
Diction
Epigraph
Bathos
Figurative Language