Rhetoric Vocab

Question 1

Ethos

Answer 1

create trust (ethics, ethical, ethology)

Question 2

pathos

Answer 2

appeal to emotion, what the readers feels

Question 3

logos

Answer 3

appeal to reason, main method of persuasion

Question 4

Anaphora

Answer 4

repetition of words at the begging sentences (for emphasis)

Question 5

antithesis

Answer 5

opposition or contrast of ideas in parallel structure (to show range, contrast)

Question 6

allusion

Answer 6

indirect reference to something famous (build ethos, associate pathos)

Question 7

analogy

Answer 7

2 unrelated things are compared for similar qualities (to clarify unfamiliar with familiar)

Question 8

metaphor

Answer 8

direct comparison of unlike things (understand new ideas, catch readers audience)

Question 9

paradox

Answer 9

a statement appears at first to be contradictory, but after reflection makes sense (interest, irony)

Question 10

polysyndeton

Answer 10

repetition of conjunctions in sentences that wouldn’t usually be there

Question 11

asyndeton

Answer 11

leaving out conjunctions where they normally are