Rhetorical Analysis

Question 1

Rhetoric

Answer 1

art of speaking or writing effectively

Question 2

rhetorical analysis

Answer 2

act of analyzing the written or spoken word

Question 3

ethos

Answer 3

appeal to ethics and credibility

Question 4

logos

Answer 4

appeal to logic and reason

Question 5

pathos

Answer 5

appeal to emotions *effective for persuading

Question 6

tropes

Answer 6

artful variation of tipical or expceted way a word or idea is expressed

Question 7

schemes

Answer 7

artful variation of a tipical arrangement of words in a sentence a focus on arangments of words

Question 8

allusion

Answer 8

a refrence to a real or fictional person, place or thing

Question 9

apostrophe

Answer 9

addressing a person in a speech or composition who is not presnt

Question 10

metaphor

Answer 10

an expression of meaning that compares two unlike things

Question 11

simile

Answer 11

comparing two things with like or as

Question 12

personification

Answer 12

giving an animate object human characteristics

Question 13

metonymy

Answer 13

using one word to refer to a related term or word

Question 14

synecdoche

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a figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole

Question 15

alliteration

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Repetition of the same letter at the beginning of each word

Question 16

assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds between different consonates inside a line

Question 17

consonance

Answer 17

repetition of same consonant sounds repeated in a group of words

Question 18

onomatopoeia

Answer 18

intentional use of words that sound like their meaning

Question 19

hyperbole

Answer 19

a gross exaggeration to make an effect or to highlight somethings

Question 20

oxymoron

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intentional use of an apparent contradiction

Question 21

rhetorical question

Answer 21

purposeful inclusion of a question intended not to be answered but to envoke deep thought

Question 22

litotes

Answer 22

deliberate use of an understatement

Question 23

paradox

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contradiction but true

Question 24

irony

Answer 24

opposite of what is expected (verbal, situational, dramatic)

Question 25

parallel structure

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a similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases or clauses

Question 26

antithesis

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a sentence structure with direct opposites side by side

Question 27

tricolon

Answer 27

3 parallel words, pharses or clauses

Question 28

juxtaposition

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placing 2 things closely together to emphasize the comparisons or contrast

Question 29

asyndeton

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purposeful omission of words by which the meaning is still clear because of the context

Question 30

ellipsis

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leaving out one or 2 words that a lister or reader will assume

Question 31

anadiplosis

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the rep of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next

Question 32

anaphora

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rep of a phrase for emphasis

Question 33

chiasmus

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happens when 1st clause or phrase is revered in 2nd

Question 34

polysyndeton

Answer 34

literary technique that uses conjunctions in repeated succession

Question 35

epistrophe

Answer 35

rep of same group of words at the end of successive clauses

Question 36

epanalepsis

Answer 36

rep at the end of the clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause