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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 detail - image - or character type that occurs frequently in myth and literature - thought to appeal to the unconscious
Archetype
Ambiguity
Foreshadowing
Setting
2. A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts - events - episodes
Epiphany
Flashback
Repetition
Allegory
3. A rhetorical strategy that attacks the person rather than the idea
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Ad Hominem
Anaphora
4. A particularly clever extended metaphor
Eulogy
Pathetic Fallacy
Conceit
Aphorism
5. A conclusion drawn from presented details
Eulogy
Didactic
Connotation
Inference
6. The use of slang in writing
Figurative Language
Ad Hominem
Dialect
Colloquial
7. A part is used to represent the whole (crown=king)
Antithesis
Synecdoche
Pathetic Fallacy
Subtext
8. Sound words - imitative harmony
Jargon
Setting
Dialect
Onomatopoeia
9. Time and place of a story
Bathos
Sarcasm
Setting
Irony
10. 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.)
Zeugma
Colloquial
Diction
Connotation
11. Choices a character makes in relation to an obstacle (problem)
Sarcasm
Onomatopoeia
Ad Hominem
Conflict
12. A form of personification - only it is not a character in the story
Bathos
Situational Irony
Pathetic Fallacy
Imagery
13. An inscription on a tombstone
Diction
Onomatopoeia
Archetype
Epitaph
14. A story that operates on the symbolic level and teaches a lesson or moral
Aphorism
Parable
Syllogism
Allegory
15. Literary devices that enable an author to operate on levels other than the literal (simile - metaphor - etc)
Figurative Language
Controlling Metaphor
Sarcasm
Jargon
16. The recreation of regional spoken language
Verbal Irony
Synecdoche
Apostrophe
Dialect
17. An inference that does not follow logically from the premise (literally - does not follow)
Non Sequitur
Oxymoron
Foil
Personification
18. The answer to a question
Theme
Thesis
A Priori Reasoning
Repetition
19. A metaphor around which the entire story revolves
Point of attack
Alliteration
Controlling Metaphor
Analogy
20. Making a situation seem less important or serious than it is
Deductive Reasoning
Understatement
Climax
Figurative Language
21. Attitude the narrator wants the reader to take toward a setting - character - or idea
Tone
Oratory
Metonymy
Point of attack
22. The 'unravelling' or resolution of the story - falling action
Denouement
A Priori Reasoning
Oxymoron
Epiphany
23. Inanimate objects or abstract ideas given human characteristics
Didactic
Consonance
Cliche
Personification
24. Same ending sounds
Enumeration
Synecdoche
Parallelism
Consonance
25. Pattern; repeated image - symbol - idea
Assonance
Logical Fallacy
Repetition
Motif
26. Words - phrases - ideas placed side by side for effect
Juxtaposition
Point of attack
Verbal Irony
Simile
27. Describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
Bathos
Metonymy
Characterization
Flashback
28. A numbered list
Pathetic Fallacy
Ad Hominem
Enumeration
Epigraph
29. Words which evoke sorrow
Allegory
Pathos
Imagery
Didactic
30. An unexpected outcome
Irony
Oratory
Alliteration
Pathos
31. Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Situational Irony
Epigraph
A Priori Reasoning
32. A form of logic that moves from the general to the specific
Analogy
Deductive Reasoning
Epitaph
Cliche
33. A word that represents a larger idea or concept
Denouement
Symbol
Irony
Flashback
34. When the story begins
Synecdoche
Eulogy
Pathos
Point of attack
35. Dictionary definition of a word
Metonymy
Anticlimax
Setting
Denotation
36. Contrasting words placed together for effect
Oxymoron
Epitaph
Epigraph
Inference
37. A formal speech praising one who has died
Symbol
Setting
Eulogy
Pedantic
38. Emotional response of the reader
Parody
Antithesis
Bathos
Mood
39. Literary - historical - artistic reference
Synecdoche
Denotation
Characterization
Allusion
40. A comic imitation that ridicules the original. It can be mocking or gently humorous
Pathetic Fallacy
Didactic
Parody
Controlling Metaphor
41. A formal argument that consists of a major premise - a minor one - and a conclusion
Dramatic Irony
Syllogism
Subtext
Zeugma
42. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
Inference
Apostrophe
Didactic
Inductive Reasoning
43. Reaching for the sublime - the tone results in the absurd
Flashback
Hyperbole
Zeugma
Bathos
44. A direct comparison
Symbol
Metaphor
Connotation
Epitaph
45. A play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but differ in meaning
Pun
Didactic
Paradox
Eulogy
46. A metaphor which changes and grows throughout the story
Setting
Extended Metaphor
Bathos
Pathos
47. Character whose behavior and values contrast with those of another character
Inductive Reasoning
Foil
Consonance
Understatement
48. A conclusion that can be arrived at without any observations of the world - but relies only on logical connections between ideas
Analogy
A Priori Reasoning
Climax
Imagery
49. Same beginning sound
Flashback
Consonance
Setting
Alliteration
50. A sermon or moralistic lecture
Logical Fallacy
Syntax
Homily
Alliteration