Rhetorical Devices #6 Flashcards
An exaggerated imitation of a serious work for humorous purposes. It borrows words or phrases from an original, and pokes fun at it.
Parody
The fictional mask or narrator that tells a story.
Persona
An adjective, group of adjectives, or adjective clause that follows a linking verb in the predicate of the sentence, modifies the subject.
Predicate Adjective
A noun, group of nouns, or noun clause that renames the subject. It follows a linking verb and is located in the predicate of the sentence.
Predicate Nominative
The process of using conjunctions or connecting words frequently in a sentence, placed very close to one another.
Polysyndeton
Figure of speech in which a word is applied to two others in different senses or to two other of which it grammatically suits only one.
Syllepsis
An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish.
Pedantic
A generally bitter comment that is ironically worded. However, not all ironic statements are sarcastic. Sarcasm is usually a way to mock or ridicule something, which irony isn’t.
Sarcasm
A work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of life to a humorous effect. It targets human vices & follies, or social institutions and conventions. Usually uses wit, irony, parody, caricature, hyperbole, sarcasm.
Satire
Lack of conjunctions between coordinate planes, clause, or words.
Asyndeton
Pretended omission for rhetorical effect.
Praeteriteo/Paraleipsis
Agreement of words according to logic, and not grammatical form.
Synesis
A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
Pun
