Rhetorical devices 2

Question 1

Abstract

Answer 1

not related to the concrete properties of an object; pertaining to ideas, concepts ,or qualities, as apposed to physical attributes.

Question 2

Aesthetic

Answer 2

pertaining to the value of art for its own sake or for form

Question 3

Ambiguity

Answer 3

the use of language in which multiple meanings are possible.

Question 4

Anachronism

Answer 4

the use of historically inaccurate details in text.

Question 5

Asyndeton

Answer 5

the practice of omitting conjunctions in-between words phrases or clauses

Question 6

Colloquial

Answer 6

Ordinary language

Question 7

Consonance

Answer 7

the reputation of two or more constants with change in vowels

Question 8

Contradiction

Answer 8

a direct opposition between two things compared

Question 9

Elegy

Answer 9

poem or prose laminating the death of someone

Question 10

Epigraph

Answer 10

a quote at the beginning of a text that helps give a hint to the mood of the text

Question 11

Foil

Answer 11

a person or things that makes a another seem better

Question 12

Genre

Answer 12

term used to describe literary forms

Question 13

Imagery

Answer 13

sensory details in work

Question 14

Inductive

Answer 14

conclusion or type of reasoning whereby observation or information about a part of a class that is applied to the whole class

Question 15

Invective

Answer 15

the use of angry or insulting language in satirical writing

Question 16

Isocolon

Answer 16

parallels structure with parallels elements close grammatically structurally and in length

Question 17

Parallelism

Answer 17

recurrent syntactical similarities where several parts of sentences express the importance of the ideas

Question 18

Tone

Answer 18

the attitude of a literary work towards its subject

Question 19

Voice