Rhetorical Terms 1 Flashcards
The goal the writer or speaker hopes to achieve with the text.
Ex: to persuade, to inform
Aim
Reading to experience the world of the text
Aesthetic reading
An extended metaphor
Allegory
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or in the middle of two or more adjacent words
Alliteration
The repetition if the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause
Anadiplosis
A brief narrative offered in a text to capture the audiences attention or to support a generalization or claim.
Anecdote
Word choice characterized by simple often one- or two- syllable nouns, adjectives, and adverbs.
Anglo-Saxon diction
The relationship expressed by “if…then” reasoning.
Antecedent-consequence relationship
A noun or noun phrase that follows another noun immediately and defines or amplifies its meaning.
Appositive
The omission of conjunctions between related clauses.
Ex: “I came, I saw, I conquered”
Asyndeton
One of four perspectives that Aristotle explained could be used to generate material about and subject matter: greater or less, possible and impossible.
Basic topic
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)
Canon
The convergence of time, place, audience, and motivating factors in which a piece of writing or a speech is situated.
Context
Heightening a message by emphasizing pitch, volume, and pause and by using gestures and movements.
Declaiming
Reasoning that begins with a general principle and concludes with a specific instance that demonstrates the general principle.
Deductive reasoning
The describable patterns of language- grammar and vocabulary- used by a particular culture or ethnic population.
Dialect
Word choice which is viewed on scales of formality/informality, concreteness/ abstraction, Latinate derivation/ Anglo-Saxon derivation, and denotative value/ connotative value.
Diction
The double (or multiple) meanings of a group if words that the speaker or writer has purposely left ambiguous.
Double entendre
A type of poem, popular primarily in the nineteenth century, in which the speaker is delivering a monologue to an assumed group of listeners.
Dramatic monologue
The emotional or psychological impact a text has on a reader or listener
Effect
Reading to garner info from the text
Efferent reading
Logical reasoning with one premise left unstated.
Enthymeme
The appeal of a text to the credibility and character to the speaker, writer, or narrator
Ethos
The facts, statistics, anecdotes, and examples that a speaker or writer offers in support of a claim, generalization or conclusion.
Evidence
An extended passage arguing that if two things are similar in one or two ways, they are probably similar in other says as well.
Extended analogy
A narrative in which fictional characters, often animals, take actions that have ethical or moral significance
Fable
A piece of writing classified by type
Ex: letter, narrative, eulogy, editorial
Genre
A systematic strategy or method for solving problems.
Heuristic
Am exaggeration for effect
Hyperbole
A passage of text that evokes sensation or emotional intensity
Image
Reasoning that begins with citing a number of specific instances or examples and then shows how collectively they constitute a general principle.
Inductive reasoning
The specialized vocabulary of a specific group
Jargon
A sentence that adds modifying elements after the subject, verb and complement
Loose sentence
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
Metaphor
The feeling that a text is intended to produce in the audience.
Mood
A literary device in which the sound of a word is related to its meaning.
Ex: buzz, moan
Onomatopoeia
A set of similarly structured words, phrases, or clauses that appears in a sentence or paragraph
Parallelism
A sentence with modifying elements included before the verb and/or complement.
Periodic sentence
Begging of the question; disagreeing with premises or reasoning
Petitio Principi
Louise Rosenblatt’s term for the interpretive moment when reader and text connect
Poem
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.
Rhetoric
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.
Rhetorical question
An artful variation from typical formation and arrangement of words or sentences
Scheme
Dialogue in which a character speaks aloud to himself/herself.
Soliloquy
Logical reasoning from inarguable premises.
Syllogism
The order of words in a sentence
Syntax
A group of words that merely repeats the meaning already conveyed.
Tautology
An artful variation from expected modes of expression of thoughts and ideas.
Trope
The quality of a text that reflects the truth of actual experience.
Verisimilitude
The textual features, such as diction and sentence structure, that convey a writer’s or speaker’s persona.
Voice
