Rhetoric Terms

Question 1

Logos

Answer 1

The appeal to reason through facts and stats

Question 2

Pathos

Answer 2

The appeal to the emotions

Question 3

Ethos

Answer 3

The character of the speaker/writer’s credibility

Question 4

Trope

Answer 4

Literary elements that help convince

Question 5

Metaphor

Answer 5

Figure of speech that compares two unrelated things

Question 5

Simile

Answer 5

A figure of speech that compares two things

Question 6

Parallelism

Answer 6

two or three similar or related ideas of equal importance in similar grammatical structures

Question 7

Climax

Answer 7

Writer arranges ideas in order of importance

Question 8

Antithesis

Answer 8

The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas

Question 9

Anaphora

Answer 9

repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses

Question 10

Epistrophe

Answer 10

Repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses (opposite of anaphora

Question 11

Epanalepsis

Answer 11

repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning

Question 12

Zeugma

Answer 12

A term used in several ways; when an object taking word has two or more objects or when two different words that sound exactly alike are yoked together

Question 13

Chiasmus

Answer 13

Grammatical structure of the first clause of phrase is reversed in the second