Rhetoric List 3 Flashcards
Explication
The art of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text
Example
And individual instance taken to be representative of a general pattern
Exposition
The immediate revelation to the audience of the setting and other background information necessary for understanding the plot
Extended metaphor
A sustained comparison, often referred to Asa conceit.
False analogy
When two cases are no sufficiently parallel to readers to accept a claim of connection between them
Figurative language
Language that contains a figure of speech such as similes and metaphors, in order to create associations that are imaginative rather than literal
Figures of speech
Expressions, such as similes, metaphors, and personifications, that make imaginative rather than literal comparisons or associations
Foreshadowing
The use of a hint or clue to suggest a larger even that occurs late in the work
Freight Train
Sentence consisting of three or more very short independent clauses joined by conjunctions
Generalization
When a writes bases a claim upon an isolated example of asserts that claim is certain rather than probable
Genre
A type of literary work, such as a novel or poem; there are also subgenres, such as as science fiction or sonnet, within the larger genres
Hubris
The excessive pride of ambition that leads a trance hero to disregard warnings of impending doom, ritually causing his or her downfall
Humor
Anything that causes laughter or amusement
Hyperbole
Deliberate exaggeration in order to create humor or emphasis
Image
A word or words, either figurative or literal, used to describe sensory experience of and object perceived by the sense
