Rhetorical Device Flashcards
Language that is overly rhetorical, especially when considered in context
Bombast
Asking a rhetorical question to the reader as a transition or as a thought provoking tool before preceding
Erotema
A regional speech pattern; the way people talk in different parts of the world
Dialect
To use a safer or nicer word for something others find inappropriate or unappealing
Euphemism
A contrast between what happened and what was expected to happen
Situational irony
A reference that recalls another work, another time in history, another famous person, and so forth
Allusion
The association or moods that accompany a word
Connotation
A play on words
Pun
To unite or synthesize a variety of sources to achieve a common end
Synthesis
The use of hints and suggestions to offer clues to future developments in a work
Foreshadowing
A word that represents something other than itself
Symbol
The mood or the sentiments revealed by the style
Tone
Any time one of the five senses is evoked by what you have read
Imagery
A contrast between what is said and what is meant (sarcasm)
Verbal irony
Devices used in the art of persuasion
Rhetorical device
A pattern of speech and vocabulary associated with a particular group of people
Jargon
It is the basic message or meaning conveying through elements of character and conflict
Theme
A term that signifies a relational comparison of or similarity between two objects or ideas
Analogy
Making one idea more dramatic by placing it next to its opposite
Juxtaposition
The expression of an author’s personality through his or her writing
Voice
Something is portrayed in a way that is deliberately distorted to achieve comic effect
Satire
A form of word play in which one word is mistakenly substituted for another that sounds similar
Malapropism
Is a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms
Allegory
The use of words to express something other than and often the opposite of the literal meaning
Irony
A question whose answer is assumed
Rhetorical question
The atmosphere or feeling created in a literary work
Mood
The particular words an author uses in an essay
Diction
Giving human attributes to non human things
Personification
A method used to prevent past events during current events in order to provide background information
Flashback
The perspective from which the writer chooses to present his or her story of essay
Point of view
This occurs when the author of an essay significantly alters his diction, syntax, or both
Rhetorical shift
This is the opposite of a connotation and is quite literally the dictionary meaning of a word
Denotation
A short story that is designed to teach a truth or lesson
Parable
A statement or expression that is mean spirited and intended to hurt or upset the person to whom it is directed or about whom it said
sarcasm
The manner of expression
Style
A contrast between what the character thinks to be true and what the reader knows to be true
Dramatic irony
The writer’s statement of purpose
Thesis
