Rhetoric

Question 1

Oxymoron

Answer 1

2 contradictory elements: jumbo shrimp, deafening silence

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

makes brief reference to a historical/literary figure, event, or object to create a resonance or symbolic meaning. (ex. Trimalchio, Castle Rackrent)

Question 3

Parody

Answer 3

Satirical imitation of work of art to ridicule style

Question 4

Pun

Answer 4

play on words (2 meanings)

Question 5

Irony

Answer 5

Dramatic: audience knows but character doesn’t
Verbal: opposite of what is said
Situational: ex. cancer researcher dies of cancer

Question 6

Euphemism

Answer 6

substitution of a milder expression in place for a blunt one. (passed away for dead)

Question 7

Foreshadow

Answer 7

hints/clues to what’s going to happen

Question 8

Allegory

Answer 8

Narrative using symbolism, extended metaphor (ex. Garden of Eden in Osiris and Iris)

Question 9

Symbolism

Answer 9

using concrete object to represent something abstract

Question 10

Archetype

Answer 10

symbol that transcends cultures

Question 11

Simile

Answer 11

using ‘like’ or ‘as’

Question 12

Metaphor

Answer 12

compares w/out ‘like or ‘as’

Question 13

Imagery

Answer 13

Adjectives, adverbs, similes + metaphors to create a picture. (ex. blood, garment, illness, animal, and light/dark in Macbeth)

Question 14

Personification

Answer 14

giving human or living qualities to a non-living thing (wind howled)

Question 15

Rhyming couplet

Answer 15

two lines of poetry that rhyme

Question 16

Alliteration

Answer 16

repetition of beginning sounds

Question 17

Paradox

Answer 17

statement that seems self-contradictory, but is true

Question 18

Pathetic fallacy

Answer 18

attributes human feelings to inanimate things like nature (use of heat to reflect tension of Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, and Nick)