Q1 - Rhetoric Terms Flashcards
Repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in sequence
Alliteration
Brief reference to a person, event, or place
Allusion
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines
Anaphora
Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel
Antithesis
Omission of conjunctions between coordinate planes, clauses, or words
Asyndenton
The listener, viewer, or reader of a text
Audience
An acknowledgement that a counter argument may be true or reasonable
Concession
Meanings or associations that readers have with a word beyond its dictionary definition or denotation
Connotation
Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and adds on
Cumulative Sentence
Sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action
Hortative Sentence
Sentence used to command or enjoin
Imperative Sentence
Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end
Periodic Sentence
Inverted order of words in a sentence
Inversion
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences
Juxtaposition
Figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as
Metaphor
Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another
Oxymoron
Greek for “mask”. The face or character that a speaker shows to his or her audience
Persona
Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea
Personification
Greek for “hostile”. An aggressive argument that tries to establish the superiority of one option over all others
Polemic
The spread of ideas or information to further a cause
Propaganda
The goal the speaker wants to achieve
Purpose
A denial of the validity of an opposing argument
Refutation
A logical structure that uses the major premise and minor premise to reach a necessary conclusion
Syllogism
Figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole
Synecdoche
Any cultural product that can be read
Text
Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings
Zeugma
