Rhetorical Terms 1 Flashcards
The goal of the write or speaker hopes to achieve from the text
Aim
Reading to experience the world of the text
Aesthetic Reading
Allegory
An extended metaphor
Alliteration
The repetition of consonants
Anecdote
A brief story used to hook
Anglo-Saxon diction
Simpleton diction
Antecedent-consequence relationship
“If, then” relationship.
A noun or noun phrase that amplifies the meaning of the first noun
Appositive
Relating clauses. “I came, I saw, I conquered.”
Asyndeton
Aristotle’s perspective on subject matter
Basic topic
A traditional element of rhetorical composition
Canon
The setting and motivation of a story
Context
Declaiming
Emphasis on a message by changing the physical attributes of it’s presentation
Logical conclusions
Deductive reasoning
Patterns in language grammar and vocabulary
Dialect
Word choice
Diction
Purposely ambiguous multiple groups of words
Double entendre
A simple poem monologging to an assumed group of listeners
Dramatic monologue
Effect
The impact a text has on a reader
Reading to garner information from a text
Efferent reading
Logical reasoning without premise
Enthymeme
Appeal to credibility; ethical appeal.
Ethos
Evidence
The facts stats and dotes
Extended analogy
An extended passage arguing that if two things are similar in a few ways.
Fable
A narrative of fictional characters that have moral significance
Genre
Type of text
Heuristic
A systematic way of solving problems
Hyperbole
An exaggeration for effect.
Image
A passage the EVOKES A FRAME of sensation or emotion
Inductive reasoning
Reasoning through through instances and examples
Jargon
Specialized vocabulary of a particular group
Loose sentence
A sentence that compliments.
Metaphor
Comparison WITHOUT like/as
Mood
Feeling of a text
Onomatopoeia
Literary device in which the sound of a word is related
Parallelism
A set of similar structured words
Periodic sentence
A sentence with modifying elements included before the verb and or compliment
Petitio principi
Begging of the questions disagreeing with reasoning
Poem
A text that doesn’t need to
Follow the rules of prose
The art of analyzing the language of a writer
Rhetoric
At artful variation from typical formation
Scheme
Dialogues in which a character speaks to himself aloud
Soliloquy
Logical reasoning from inarguable premises
Syllogism
The order of words in a sentence
Syntax
A group of repeating words
Tautology
Trope
An art of variation from typical expression of thoughts
The quality of a text that reflects the truth of the experience
Verisimilitude
Voice
The textual features of a story
