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Rhetoric Vocab
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logic-and-reasoning
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1. Clues that tip the reader off as to What is to come later in the work
Foil
Personification
Foreshadowing
Didactic
2. Unexpected outcome in the plot
Allusion
Parable
Situational Irony
Pedantic
3. Sound words - imitative harmony
Flashback
Imagery
Situational Irony
Onomatopoeia
4. Character whose behavior and values contrast with those of another character
Parable
Exposition
Foil
A Priori Reasoning
5. Sentences - or parts of a sentence with similar structure
Inference
Didactic
Parallelism
Pun
6. A comic imitation that ridicules the original. It can be mocking or gently humorous
Figurative Language
Ambiguity
Anaphora
Parody
7. The 'unravelling' or resolution of the story - falling action
Zeugma
Repetition
Allegory
Denouement
8. A formal argument that consists of a major premise - a minor one - and a conclusion
Syllogism
Didactic
Parody
Motif
9. Using the same word or phrase for emphasis
Juxtaposition
Anticlimax
Logical Fallacy
Repetition
10. A metaphor around which the entire story revolves
Controlling Metaphor
Tone
Didactic
Understatement
11. Attitude the narrator wants the reader to take toward a setting - character - or idea
Subtext
Aphorism
Tone
Antithesis
12. A numbered list
Enumeration
Deductive Reasoning
Tone
Diction
13. Technical - specialized language
Jargon
Homily
Repetition
Mood
14. Deliberately unclear - having multiple meanings
Ambiguity
Denouement
Parable
Anticlimax
15. Statement that contradicts itself - "the more you learn the less you know"
Syntax
Sarcasm
Flashback
Paradox
16. Pattern; repeated image - symbol - idea
Conceit
Symbol
Didactic
Motif
17. Form of personification - speaking to an absent or dead person or object as if it is there
Exposition
Apostrophe
Diction
Alliteration
18. A sermon or moralistic lecture
Homily
Rhetorical Question
Sarcasm
Pathetic Fallacy
19. A mistake in reasoning
Characterization
Homily
Logical Fallacy
Pathos
20. A direct comparison
Conceit
Extended Metaphor
Tone
Metaphor
21. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Synecdoche
Controlling Metaphor
Subtext
Anaphora
22. When the reader expects a climax to occur and it doesn't happen
Denouement
Rhetorical Question
Syntax
Anticlimax
23. Ashort account of an interesting or humorous incident - intended to illustrate or support some point
Anecdote
Personification
Eulogy
Allegory
24. Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences
Anaphora
Epiphany
Setting
Characterization
25. 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
Mood
Flashback
Antithesis
26. A conclusion drawn from presented details
Dramatic Irony
Enumeration
Dialect
Inference
27. A form of personification - only it is not a character in the story
Flashback
Conflict
Pathetic Fallacy
Cliche
28. Describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
Enumeration
Euphemism
Metonymy
Epigraph
29. Type of irony in which a person seems to be praising something but actually insulting
Repetition
Apostrophe
Climax
Sarcasm
30. A word that represents a larger idea or concept
Symbol
Metaphor
Jargon
Juxtaposition
31. Reaching for the sublime - the tone results in the absurd
Eulogy
Enumeration
Controlling Metaphor
Bathos
32. Inanimate objects or abstract ideas given human characteristics
Personification
Point of attack
Synecdoche
Figurative Language
33. A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts - events - episodes
Chiasmus
Subtext
Anecdote
Flashback
34. A story that operates on the symbolic level and teaches a lesson or moral
Antithesis
Synecdoche
Assonance
Parable
35. The answer to a question
Diction
Motif
Thesis
Subtext
36. Direct contrast or opposite
Syllogism
Antithesis
Symbol
Analogy
37. Emotional definition of a word
Chiasmus
Parallelism
Connotation
Rhetoric
38. A conclusion that can be arrived at without any observations of the world - but relies only on logical connections between ideas
Epiphany
A Priori Reasoning
Analogy
Assonance
39. A formal - often pompous - speech
Personification
Oxymoron
Irony
Oratory
40. A detail - image - or character type that occurs frequently in myth and literature - thought to appeal to the unconscious
Dialect
Archetype
Verbal Irony
Extended Metaphor
41. Same ending sounds
Metonymy
Consonance
Chiasmus
Synecdoche
42. The underlying message
Chiasmus
Repetition
Apostrophe
Theme
43. A question that does not expect an explicit answer
Epigraph
Subtext
Pathetic Fallacy
Rhetorical Question
44. A comparison using like or as
Thesis
Subtext
Simile
Exposition
45. The use of a quotation at the beginning of the work which often hints at a theme
Epigraph
Allusion
Dialect
Flashback
46. Making something sound nicer than it is; candy-coated words
Metonymy
Satire
Simile
Euphemism
47. Words - phrases - ideas placed side by side for effect
Epiphany
Anaphora
Deductive Reasoning
Juxtaposition
48. Word order or organization
Foil
Syntax
Characterization
Controlling Metaphor
49. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
Syntax
Didactic
Tone
Bathos
50. Dictionary definition of a word
Rhetoric
Irony
Paradox
Denotation
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