Rhetorical Terms 1

Question 0

The goal of the write or speaker hopes to achieve from the text

Answer 0

Aim

Question 1

Reading to experience the world of the text

Answer 1

Aesthetic Reading

Question 2

Allegory

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An extended metaphor

Question 3

Alliteration

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The repetition of consonants

Question 4

Anecdote

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A brief story used to hook

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Anglo-Saxon diction

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Simpleton diction

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Antecedent-consequence relationship

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“If, then” relationship.

Question 7

A noun or noun phrase that amplifies the meaning of the first noun

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Appositive

Question 8

Relating clauses. “I came, I saw, I conquered.”

Answer 8

Asyndeton

Question 9

Aristotle’s perspective on subject matter

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Basic topic

Question 10

A traditional element of rhetorical composition

Answer 10

Canon

Question 11

The setting and motivation of a story

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Context

Question 12

Declaiming

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Emphasis on a message by changing the physical attributes of it’s presentation

Question 13

Logical conclusions

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Deductive reasoning

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Patterns in language grammar and vocabulary

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Dialect

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Word choice

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Diction

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Purposely ambiguous multiple groups of words

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Double entendre

Question 17

A simple poem monologging to an assumed group of listeners

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Dramatic monologue

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Effect

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The impact a text has on a reader

Question 19

Reading to garner information from a text

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Efferent reading

Question 20

Logical reasoning without premise

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Enthymeme

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Appeal to credibility; ethical appeal.

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Ethos

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Evidence

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The facts stats and dotes

Question 23

Extended analogy

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An extended passage arguing that if two things are similar in a few ways.

Question 24

Fable

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A narrative of fictional characters that have moral significance

Question 25

Genre

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Type of text

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Heuristic

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A systematic way of solving problems

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Hyperbole

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An exaggeration for effect.

Question 28

Image

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A passage the EVOKES A FRAME of sensation or emotion

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Inductive reasoning

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Reasoning through through instances and examples

Question 30

Jargon

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Specialized vocabulary of a particular group

Question 31

Loose sentence

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A sentence that compliments.

Question 32

Metaphor

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Comparison WITHOUT like/as

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Mood

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Feeling of a text

Question 34

Onomatopoeia

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Literary device in which the sound of a word is related

Question 35

Parallelism

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A set of similar structured words

Question 36

Periodic sentence

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A sentence with modifying elements included before the verb and or compliment

Question 37

Petitio principi

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Begging of the questions disagreeing with reasoning

Question 38

Poem

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A text that doesn’t need to

Follow the rules of prose

Question 39

The art of analyzing the language of a writer

Answer 39

Rhetoric

Question 40

At artful variation from typical formation

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Scheme

Question 41

Dialogues in which a character speaks to himself aloud

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Soliloquy

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Logical reasoning from inarguable premises

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Syllogism

Question 43

The order of words in a sentence

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Syntax

Question 44

A group of repeating words

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Tautology

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Trope

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An art of variation from typical expression of thoughts

Question 46

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

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Verisimilitude

Question 47

Voice

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The textual features of a story