Quick Quiz Terms Flashcards
A concise statement designed to make a point, illustrate held belief
Aphorism
Juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas
Antithesis
An address or invocation to something inanimate
Apostrophe
The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, successive or proximate words
Assonance
Arguer sidesteps the question
Begging the question
That which has been accepted as authentic
Canon
The order of the terms of the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in second
Chiasmus
Comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of literature ( extended metaphor)
Conceit
Repetition of two or more consonants with a change in the intervening vowels
Consonance
An accepted manner, model, tradition
Convention
Assessment or analysis of something for purpose of determining what it is…
Critique
General to specific
Deductive reasoning
Greek ‘good teaching’
Didactic
Work that laments, or meditates upon the death of a person
Elegy
Repetition of phrase at the end of successive sentences
Epistrophe
Writing in praise of dead person
Epitath
Passage in praise of a person; an oration in honor of deceased
Eulogy
Interpretation or analysis of text
Exposition
Series of comparisons within piece of writing
Extended metaphor
Specific to general
Inductive reasoning
Parallel structure in which parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure but also length
Isocolon
Long sentence that starts with main clause, followed by several dependent clauses
Loose sentence
Way in which information is presented in written/ spoken form
Mode of discourse
Use of similar forms in writing for nouns, …
Parallel structure
Relation in which a narrator stands to a subject of discourse
Point of view
Ordinary written language without metrical structure
Prose
Opposing arguments are anticipated and countered
Rebuttal
Manner in which a writer combines and arranges words, shapes ideas…
Style
