Rhetoric

Question 1

rhetoric

Answer 1

the art of persuasion

Question 2

ethos

Answer 2

establishing the character and voice of the speaker
split into two parts - credibility and rapport

Question 3

credibility

Answer 3

authority and honesty

Question 4

rapport

Answer 4

relationship with your audience

Question 5

pathos

Answer 5

using linguistic techniques to appeal to your audience’s emotion

Question 6

logos

Answer 6

using argument to appeal to your audience’s sense of reason

Question 7

triadic structure

Answer 7

series of three parallel words, phrases, or clauses

Question 8

syntactic parallelism

Answer 8

similar grammatical structures in successive phrases, clauses, or sentences

Question 9

bathos

Answer 9

knock something down after building it up

Question 10

anadiplosis

Answer 10

the repetition of the last word of one clause or sentence at the beginning of the next

Question 11

anaphora

Answer 11

repetition of a word/ words at the beginning of successive phrases to create a sonic effect

Question 12

asyndeton

Answer 12

the omission of a conjunction between parts of a sentence

Question 13

polysyndeton

Answer 13

the use of several conjunctions in close succession

Question 14

epistrophe

Answer 14

anaphora backwards, when you repeat a word at the end of a clause

Question 15

symploce

Answer 15

anaphora and epistrophe come together; beginning and ending of a clause are repeated