Rhetoric

Question 1

Analogy

Answer 1

Extended comparison b/n 2 unlike things; usually a well-known thing is employed to explain something less familiar

Question 2

Apostrophe

Answer 2

Direct address of a personified object or audience, forceful emotional device

Question 3

Irony

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Contrast b/n what seems to be and what really is

Question 4

Dramatic Irony

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Reader or audience knows more about what is happening/is about to happen than the characters do

Question 5

Situational Irony

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An event is the opposite of what is expected (lottery winners go bankrupt)

Question 6

Verbal Irony

Answer 6

Words mean opposite of what is intended (“great weather, right?” when there is the 3rd consecutive weekend snowstorm)

Question 7

Kairos

Answer 7

rhetorical art of seizing the occasion, covering both timing and the appropriate medium

Question 8

Metaphor

Answer 8

Figure that makes a comparison w/out using like or as

Question 9

Metonymy

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reference to something closely related to the actual subject, so standing in for the object itself

Question 10

Paradox

Answer 10

An impossible pair that does point to a truth

Question 11

Synecdoche

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use of a part of something to represent the whole

Question 12

understatement

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force of description is less than one might expect; can emphasize an idea, calm a reader, highlight an extreme nature, or add humor

Question 13

Juxtaposition

Answer 13

placement of 2 things side by side for emphasis

Question 14

Inversion

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reversal of normal word order: blessed are the pure in heart

Question 15

Anadiplosis

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figure that builds one thought on top of another by taking the last word of a clause and using it to begin the next clause

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Anaphora

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repeats the first word in the succeeding phrases or clauses

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Antimetabole

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repetition of words in an inverted order

Question 18

Antithesis

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parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas

Question 19

Appositive

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word or phrase that renamed a nearby noun or pronoun

Question 20

asyndeton

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leaves out conjunctions in a list or between clauses

Question 21

polysyndeton

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figure that links clauses with a repeated conjunction

Question 22

epanalepsis

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same word or phrase is found both in the beginning and at the end of a sentence

Question 23

epistrophe

Answer 23

same word or phrase is repeated at the end of multiple clauses or sentences

Question 24

parallelism

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use of same general structure to provide links

Question 25

conditional

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use of the “if…then” clause

Question 26

declarative

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gives info/explains what’s going on (strong verb)

Question 27

exclamatory

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provides emotion/emphasis

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imperative

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makes a command (often “you” is implied)

Question 29

interrogative

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asks a question, thereby placing responsibility on the audience

Question 30

hortative sentence

Answer 30

urges or strongly encourages

Question 31

negative definition

Answer 31

technique that defines by explaining what something IS NOT, followed up usually by an actual definition

Question 32

Allusion

Answer 32

short, informal reference to a generally well-known place, person, event, etc.