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Rhetorical Terms 1 Flashcards

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The goal the writer or speaker hopes to achieve with the text.
Ex: to persuade, to inform

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Aim

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Reading to experience the world of the text

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Aesthetic reading

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An extended metaphor

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Allegory

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The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or in the middle of two or more adjacent words

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Alliteration

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The repetition if the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause

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Anadiplosis

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A brief narrative offered in a text to capture the audiences attention or to support a generalization or claim.

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Anecdote

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Word choice characterized by simple often one- or two- syllable nouns, adjectives, and adverbs.

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Anglo-Saxon diction

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The relationship expressed by “if…then” reasoning.

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Antecedent-consequence relationship

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A noun or noun phrase that follows another noun immediately and defines or amplifies its meaning.

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Appositive

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The omission of conjunctions between related clauses.

Ex: “I came, I saw, I conquered”

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Asyndeton

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One of four perspectives that Aristotle explained could be used to generate material about and subject matter: greater or less, possible and impossible.

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Basic topic

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One of the traditional elements of rhetorical composition- invention, arrangement, style, memory, or delivery.
(A thing that is actually a part of the story not something fantasized)

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Canon

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The convergence of time, place, audience, and motivating factors in which a piece of writing or a speech is situated.

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Context

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Heightening a message by emphasizing pitch, volume, and pause and by using gestures and movements.

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Declaiming

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Reasoning that begins with a general principle and concludes with a specific instance that demonstrates the general principle.

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Deductive reasoning

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The describable patterns of language- grammar and vocabulary- used by a particular culture or ethnic population.

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Dialect

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Word choice which is viewed on scales of formality/informality, concreteness/ abstraction, Latinate derivation/ Anglo-Saxon derivation, and denotative value/ connotative value.

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Diction

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The double (or multiple) meanings of a group if words that the speaker or writer has purposely left ambiguous.

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Double entendre

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A type of poem, popular primarily in the nineteenth century, in which the speaker is delivering a monologue to an assumed group of listeners.

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Dramatic monologue

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The emotional or psychological impact a text has on a reader or listener

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Effect

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Reading to garner info from the text

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Efferent reading

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Logical reasoning with one premise left unstated.

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Enthymeme

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The appeal of a text to the credibility and character to the speaker, writer, or narrator

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Ethos

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The facts, statistics, anecdotes, and examples that a speaker or writer offers in support of a claim, generalization or conclusion.

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Evidence

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An extended passage arguing that if two things are similar in one or two ways, they are probably similar in other says as well.

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Extended analogy

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A narrative in which fictional characters, often animals, take actions that have ethical or moral significance

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Fable

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A piece of writing classified by type

Ex: letter, narrative, eulogy, editorial

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Genre

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A systematic strategy or method for solving problems.

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Heuristic

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Am exaggeration for effect

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Hyperbole

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A passage of text that evokes sensation or emotional intensity

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Image

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Reasoning that begins with citing a number of specific instances or examples and then shows how collectively they constitute a general principle.

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Inductive reasoning

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The specialized vocabulary of a specific group

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Jargon

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A sentence that adds modifying elements after the subject, verb and complement

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Loose sentence

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An implied comparison that doesn’t use the words like or as. The most important of all the tropes.

Ex: his voice was a cascade of emotion

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Metaphor

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The feeling that a text is intended to produce in the audience.

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Mood

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A literary device in which the sound of a word is related to its meaning.
Ex: buzz, moan

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Onomatopoeia

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A set of similarly structured words, phrases, or clauses that appears in a sentence or paragraph

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Parallelism

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A sentence with modifying elements included before the verb and/or complement.

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Periodic sentence

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Begging of the question; disagreeing with premises or reasoning

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Petitio Principi

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Louise Rosenblatt’s term for the interpretive moment when reader and text connect

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Poem

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The are of analyzing all the choices involving language that a writer, speaker, reader or listener might make in a situation so that the text becomes meaningful, purposeful, and effective; the specific features of texts, written or spoken that cause them to be meaningful purposeful, and effective for readers or listeners in a situation.

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Rhetoric

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a question posed by the speaker or writer nor to seek and answer but instead to affirm or deny a point simply be asking a question about it.

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Rhetorical question

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An artful variation from typical formation and arrangement of words or sentences

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Scheme

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Dialogue in which a character speaks aloud to himself/herself.

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Soliloquy

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Logical reasoning from inarguable premises.

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Syllogism

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The order of words in a sentence

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Syntax

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A group of words that merely repeats the meaning already conveyed.

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Tautology

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An artful variation from expected modes of expression of thoughts and ideas.

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Trope

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The quality of a text that reflects the truth of actual experience.

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Verisimilitude

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The textual features, such as diction and sentence structure, that convey a writer’s or speaker’s persona.

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Voice

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