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Rhetoric Vocab
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Subject
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logic-and-reasoning
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Sentences - or parts of a sentence with similar structure
Parallelism
Parody
Epiphany
Flashback
2. Events that take place before the story begins
A Priori Reasoning
Syntax
Verbal Irony
Exposition
3. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
Deductive Reasoning
Thesis
Didactic
Dialect
4. Direct contrast or opposite
Epigraph
Antithesis
Pun
Eulogy
5. A word that represents a larger idea or concept
Tone
Symbol
Point of attack
Characterization
6. Ashort account of an interesting or humorous incident - intended to illustrate or support some point
Controlling Metaphor
Anecdote
Allusion
Situational Irony
7. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Subtext
Situational Irony
Allusion
Pathos
8. A particularly clever extended metaphor
Parallelism
Syllogism
Conceit
Diction
9. A comparison using like or as
Parable
Enumeration
Simile
Foreshadowing
10. A form a logic that moves from the specific to the general
Characterization
Denouement
Thesis
Inductive Reasoning
11. Inanimate objects or abstract ideas given human characteristics
Personification
Repetition
Foreshadowing
Verbal Irony
12. A sermon or moralistic lecture
Foil
Ad Hominem
Homily
Hyperbole
13. Type of irony in which a person seems to be praising something but actually insulting
Dialect
Diction
Sarcasm
Paradox
14. A conclusion drawn from presented details
Characterization
Inference
Parable
Jargon
15. Clues that tip the reader off as to What is to come later in the work
Mood
Controlling Metaphor
Foreshadowing
Homily
16. Emotional definition of a word
Rhetoric
Inference
Connotation
Dramatic Irony
17. Change and growth of the character
Characterization
Denotation
Ambiguity
Parable
18. An unexpected outcome
Epitaph
Subtext
Irony
Point of attack
19. A formal speech praising one who has died
Pathos
Analogy
Eulogy
Rhetorical Question
20. A comic imitation that ridicules the original. It can be mocking or gently humorous
Connotation
Parody
Denouement
Motif
21. Emotional response of the reader
Mood
Conceit
Archetype
Epiphany
22. A form of logic that moves from the general to the specific
Conflict
Imagery
Deductive Reasoning
A Priori Reasoning
23. When the reader expects a climax to occur and it doesn't happen
Situational Irony
Eulogy
Dialect
Anticlimax
24. Word order or organization
Conflict
Euphemism
Irony
Syntax
25. A detail - image - or character type that occurs frequently in myth and literature - thought to appeal to the unconscious
Archetype
Parody
Allusion
Understatement
26. A short witty statement
Oxymoron
Pathos
Aphorism
Pathetic Fallacy
27. The answer to a question
Logical Fallacy
Oratory
Denotation
Thesis
28. A political comment through the use of humor
Antithesis
Satire
Rhetoric
Figurative Language
29. A form of personification - only it is not a character in the story
Cliche
Dialect
Pathetic Fallacy
Conceit
30. Dictionary definition of a word
Anaphora
Characterization
Denotation
Tone
31. Same beginning sound
Foil
Alliteration
A Priori Reasoning
Juxtaposition
32. Literary devices that enable an author to operate on levels other than the literal (simile - metaphor - etc)
Setting
Onomatopoeia
Figurative Language
Epitaph
33. Words - phrases - ideas placed side by side for effect
Eulogy
Repetition
Juxtaposition
Consonance
34. The manipulation of words for a specific purpose
Understatement
Rhetoric
Consonance
Parallelism
35. Using the same word or phrase for emphasis
Theme
Repetition
Epiphany
Enumeration
36. Same ending sounds
Consonance
Flashback
Dialect
Pathos
37. Unexpected outcome in the plot
Rhetoric
Personification
Situational Irony
Subtext
38. Where the audience knows more than the character
Dramatic Irony
Chiasmus
Metaphor
Analogy
39. Technical - specialized language
Epigraph
Inductive Reasoning
Imagery
Jargon
40. A part is used to represent the whole (crown=king)
Tone
Syllogism
Personification
Synecdoche
41. Words which evoke sorrow
Pathos
Theme
Simile
Jargon
42. Attitude the narrator wants the reader to take toward a setting - character - or idea
Allusion
Tone
Hyperbole
Homily
43. An overused expression
Juxtaposition
Archetype
Cliche
Rhetorical Question
44. A question that does not expect an explicit answer
Rhetorical Question
Parable
Inference
Syllogism
45. Form of personification - speaking to an absent or dead person or object as if it is there
Bathos
Repetition
Apostrophe
Allegory
46. The 'unravelling' or resolution of the story - falling action
Jargon
Parody
Denouement
Allusion
47. An inscription on a tombstone
Colloquial
Epitaph
Bathos
Euphemism
48. Pattern; repeated image - symbol - idea
Denotation
Motif
Homily
Understatement
49. A metaphor which changes and grows throughout the story
Extended Metaphor
Situational Irony
Synecdoche
Ambiguity
50. Deliberately unclear - having multiple meanings
Assonance
Climax
Parallelism
Ambiguity