Rhetorical Choices Flashcards
Authors attitude towards a subject
Tone
Author quickly changes their tone from one mood to the other
Tone Shift
Acknowledging the other side but the disprove it
Counterclaim or rebuttal
Viewing or placing things close together for contrasting effect usually opposites
Juxtaposition
Short often amusing or interesting story about a person or incident
Anecdote
An issue problem or situation that causes someone to write or think
Exigence
Authors choose of words
Diction
Space cat
Speaker purpose audience context exigence choices appeals tone
Repeating a word or phrase for emphasis
Repetition
Giving human qualities to nonhuman things
Personification
Reference to a famous work of art literature etc
Allusion
Visually descriptive or figurative language especially appeals to our five senses
Imagery
An exhortation to act or solve a problem
Call to action
Comparing two things using similie
Comparison
Repitition of a word or phrase at start of sentence
Anaphora
When components of a sentence have the same or similar grammatical construction
Parallelism
Way to create parallelism by not using conj to separate a list and or like
Asyndeton
Repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses
Epistrophe
Question posed in order to make a point rather than to get an answer
Rhetorical question
Appeals
Ethos logos pathos
We they those my I you your
Pronoun use
Opposite of asyndeton writer uses conj between every part of list
Polysyndeton
Use of examples to prove a claim
Exemplification
When a speaker poses a question and then answers it
Hypophora
