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Rhetoric Vocab
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logic-and-reasoning
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Reaching for the sublime - the tone results in the absurd
Eulogy
Bathos
Zeugma
Climax
2. Attitude the narrator wants the reader to take toward a setting - character - or idea
Ad Hominem
Tone
Antithesis
Pathos
3. The underlying message
Theme
Exposition
Epitaph
Antithesis
4. A form of personification - only it is not a character in the story
Juxtaposition
Antithesis
Pathetic Fallacy
Logical Fallacy
5. Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach
Didactic
Thesis
Conflict
Parody
6. Choices a character makes in relation to an obstacle (problem)
Conflict
Eulogy
Foreshadowing
Aphorism
7. Using the same word or phrase for emphasis
Motif
Conceit
Rhetoric
Repetition
8. Describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
Metonymy
Epigraph
Inductive Reasoning
Ad Hominem
9. A sermon or moralistic lecture
Exposition
Pathos
Repetition
Homily
10. Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Repetition
Pathos
Allusion
11. The recreation of regional spoken language
Situational Irony
Apostrophe
Dialect
Motif
12. A formal speech praising one who has died
Theme
Eulogy
Imagery
Metonymy
13. Same ending sounds
Parallelism
Repetition
Consonance
Rhetoric
14. A device that enables a writer to refer to past thoughts - events - episodes
Flashback
Ad Hominem
Onomatopoeia
Epiphany
15. A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is reversed ('Susan walked - and in rushed Mary.')
Conflict
Verbal Irony
Chiasmus
Point of attack
16. The use of a quotation at the beginning of the work which often hints at a theme
Epigraph
Oratory
Didactic
Synecdoche
17. Inanimate objects or abstract ideas given human characteristics
Personification
Assonance
Juxtaposition
Logical Fallacy
18. Where the audience knows more than the character
A Priori Reasoning
Conflict
Pun
Dramatic Irony
19. Pattern; repeated image - symbol - idea
Motif
Simile
Allusion
Allegory
20. Literary - historical - artistic reference
Foreshadowing
Allusion
Simile
Flashback
21. The use of slang in writing
Colloquial
Metaphor
Epigraph
Oxymoron
22. Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences
Figurative Language
Cliche
Allusion
Anaphora
23. An unexpected outcome
Irony
Parable
Colloquial
Climax
24. Words that create mental pictures
Colloquial
Imagery
Anaphora
Synecdoche
25. Direct contrast or opposite
Antithesis
Enumeration
Synecdoche
Irony
26. Word order or organization
Syntax
Jargon
Anaphora
Onomatopoeia
27. An inference that does not follow logically from the premise (literally - does not follow)
Subtext
Homily
Allegory
Non Sequitur
28. Statement that contradicts itself - "the more you learn the less you know"
Alliteration
Paradox
Assonance
Consonance
29. A metaphor around which the entire story revolves
Controlling Metaphor
Ad Hominem
Flashback
Parable
30. A particularly clever extended metaphor
Bathos
Allusion
Aphorism
Conceit
31. Word choice
Didactic
Diction
Paradox
Imagery
32. A mistake in reasoning
Euphemism
Logical Fallacy
Assonance
Exposition
33. Direct contrast or opposite
Antithesis
Non Sequitur
Pathetic Fallacy
Exposition
34. A part is used to represent the whole (crown=king)
Motif
Tone
Satire
Synecdoche
35. When the reader expects a climax to occur and it doesn't happen
Anticlimax
Ambiguity
Personification
Homily
36. Character whose behavior and values contrast with those of another character
Syllogism
Foil
Cliche
Colloquial
37. Sound words - imitative harmony
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
Parallelism
Antithesis
38. The answer to a question
Metaphor
Allegory
Imagery
Thesis
39. A detail - image - or character type that occurs frequently in myth and literature - thought to appeal to the unconscious
Symbol
Archetype
Motif
Paradox
40. Literary devices that enable an author to operate on levels other than the literal (simile - metaphor - etc)
Extended Metaphor
Figurative Language
Homily
Climax
41. A formal - often pompous - speech
Motif
Symbol
Apostrophe
Oratory
42. Type of irony in which a person seems to be praising something but actually insulting
Zeugma
Sarcasm
A Priori Reasoning
Repetition
43. Meaning or emotion underneath the words
Denotation
Ad Hominem
Epitaph
Subtext
44. A formal argument that consists of a major premise - a minor one - and a conclusion
Denotation
Rhetorical Question
Syllogism
Assonance
45. Ashort account of an interesting or humorous incident - intended to illustrate or support some point
Inductive Reasoning
Anecdote
Non Sequitur
Apostrophe
46. A story that operates on the symbolic level and teaches a lesson or moral
A Priori Reasoning
Rhetorical Question
Satire
Parable
47. A form a logic that moves from the specific to the general
Situational Irony
Pun
Inductive Reasoning
Motif
48. Change and growth of the character
Anticlimax
Conflict
Characterization
Parallelism
49. Deliberately unclear - having multiple meanings
Anticlimax
Ambiguity
Setting
Denouement
50. Saying one thing but meaning the opposite
Hyperbole
Verbal Irony
Allusion
Jargon