rhetoric vocab

Question 1

antimetabole

Answer 1

repetition of the exact same word or phrase in successive clauses, but flipped around (order)

Question 2

antanaclasis

Answer 2

repitition of the same word/phrase in 2 different senses, word means smth different each time it appears

Question 3

apostrophe

Answer 3

addressing a person, object, or abstraction that isn’t there and CAN’T physically be there

Question 4

assonance

Answer 4

similar vowel sounds followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words

Question 5

auxesis

Answer 5

magnifying the importance of something by giving it a disproportionate/more sophisticated name

Question 6

allegory

Answer 6

a continued metaphor, a symbolic narrative.
literal meaning + hidden meaning

Question 7

alliteration

Answer 7

repetition of the 1st or middle consonants in 2 or more words (usually in a row)

Question 8

anaphora

Answer 8

repitition of the same word/group of words at the beginning of successive clauses

Question 9

anastrophe

Answer 9

inverted word order like yoda

Question 10

antithesis

Answer 10

juxtaposition of contrasting ideas that display exact opposition (often in parallel structure)

Question 11

chiasmus

Answer 11

reversal of grammatical structures in successive clauses/phrases, often without repeating words. the second part of the phrase is a mirror image of the first.

Question 12

ellipsis

Answer 12

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leaning out a sequence of events in order to let the reader fill in the narrative gaps

Question 13

erotema

Answer 13

another name for a rhetorical question

Question 14

hyperbole

Answer 14

the use of exaggerated terms for emphasis/heightened effect

Question 15

irony

Answer 15

use of a word of phrase in order to convey a meaning opposite the literal meaning, usually sarcastic

Question 16

isocolon

Answer 16

elements are similar in word or syllable count

Question 17

litotes

Answer 17

deliberate use of understatement for effect, not to deceive someone but to enhance the irony of what we say

Question 18

metaphor

Answer 18

an implied comparison between 2 things of unlike nature that have something in common, but DOES NOT use “like” or “as”

Question 19

metonymy

Answer 19

a substitution (that people will get) of some attributing or suggestive word for what is actually meant

Question 20

onomatopoeia

Answer 20

use of words whose sound echoes the sense of the word

Question 21

oxymoron

Answer 21

the combining of two terms that are ordinarily contradictory

Question 22

parable

Answer 22

an anecdotal narrative designed to teach a moral lesson

Question 23

paradox

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a seemingly absurd and contradictory statement that when investigated or explained may prove a measure of truth.
similar to an oxymoron but is often a whole statement as opposed to a few words.

Question 24

personification

Answer 24

abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities

Question 25

pun

Answer 25

a play on words. a joke using the different meanings of a word or the fact that words sound alike but have different meanings.

Question 26

simile

Answer 26

an explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature that yet have something in common, using “like” or “as” or “than”

Question 27

synecdoche

Answer 27

a figure of speech in which a part or element of the word or phrase stands for the whole