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Rhetorical Devices Flashcards

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Perspective

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A character’s view of the situation or events in the story

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Aphorism

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A concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief

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Contradiction

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A direct opposite between things compared; inconsistency

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Apostrophe

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Speech or poem addressed to someone who is usually dead or thing that is personified

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Oxymoron

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A figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements

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Allusion

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Call something to mind without mentioning it, indirect or passing reference

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Syllogism

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A form of deduction. An extremely subtle , sophisticated, or deceptive argument.

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Satire

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A literary style used to make fun of or ridicule an idea or human vice or weakness

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Devices

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A particular word pattern or combination of words used in a literary work to evoke a desired effect or arouse a desired reaction in the reader

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Foil

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A person or thing that makes another seem better by contrast

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Epitaph

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A piece of writing in praise of a deceased person

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Parody

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A satirical imitation of a work of art for purpose of ridiculing its style or subject

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Sarcasm

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A sharp caustic remark. A form of verbal irony in which praise is actually meant as harsh and critical

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Expletive

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A single word or short phrase intended to emphasize surrounding words

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Irony

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A situation or statement characterized by significant difference between what is expected or understood and what actually happens or is meant

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Eulogy

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A speech or writing in praise of a person or thing

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Paradox

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A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true

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Epiphany

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A sudden or intuitive insight or perception into the reality or essential meaning of something usually brought on by a simple or common occurrence or experience

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Onomatopoeia

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A word capturing the sound of what it describes

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Diction

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An authors choice of words to convey tone or effect

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Utopia

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An imaginary place of ideal perfection. Opposite of dystopia

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Hyperbole

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An overstatement characterized by exaggerated language

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Antagonist

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Character or force in a literary work that opposes the main character

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Analogy

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Comparison of two things that are alike in some respects.

Examples are metaphors and similes

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Inductive

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A way to describe something that leads to something else. Collect information and draw conclusion

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Nostalgia

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Desire to return in thought or fact to a former time

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Thesis

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Focus statement of an essay

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Ethos

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In dramatic literature the moral element that determines a characters actions rather than thought or emotion

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Propaganda

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Information or rumor deliberately spread to help or harm a person, group, or institution

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Didactic

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Intended for teaching or to teach a moral lesson

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Formal Language

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Language that is lofty, dignified, or impersonal

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Anecdote

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A brief story or tale told by a character in a piece of literature

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Allegory

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Narrative form in which characters and actions have meanings outside themselves. Characters are usually personifications of abstract qualities

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Colloquial

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Ordinary language

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Aesthetic

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A set of principles underlying and guiding work of a particular artist

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Juxtaposition

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Placing two items side by side for contrasting effect

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Elegy

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Poem or prose mourning the death of a particular person

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Antihero

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Protagonist of literary work who does not embody traditional qualities of a hero

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Catharsis

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Purification or cleansing of the spirit through emotions of pity and terror as a witness to tragedy

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Epigraph

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Short quote at beginning of literary work to suggest a theme

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Motif

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Recurrent device, formula, or situation that often serves as a signal for the appearance of a character or an event

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Parallelism

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Recurrent syntactical similarity where several parts of a sentence or several sentences are expressed alike to show that the ideas in the parts or sentences equal in importance

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Anaphora

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The replacement of a word so you aren’t repeating the same word over and over

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Imagery

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Sensory details

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Euphemism

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Substitution of a milder or less direct expression for one that is harsh or blunt

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Genre

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Term used to describe literary forms

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Voice

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The acknowledged or unacknowledged source of words of the story

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Tone

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The attitude towards the literary subject

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Theme

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The central or dominant idea or concern of a work

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Protagonist

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The main character

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Denotation

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The dictionary definition of a word

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Mood

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The food resulting from the tone of the piece as well attitude and point of view

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Realism

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The literary practice of attempting to describe life and nature without idealization and with attention to detail

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Prose

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The ordinary form of written language without metrical structure

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Asyndeton

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The absence of a conjunction (but or and) in a sentence or phrase

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Deductive

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The reasoning of a conclusion drawn from a set of premises and only the premises no facts

Premise- previous statements

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Assonance

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The repetition of identical vowel sounds

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Alliteration

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The repetition of initial consonant sounds

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Consonance

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The repetition of consonants but with different vowels for different words

Splish-splash

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Persona

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The voice or figure of the author who tells and structures the story

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Syntax

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The way words are put together to form phrases

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Ambiguity

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Use of language which can have multiple meanings

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Connotation

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What is implied by a word. Not the actual dictionary meaning of the word

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