Rhetorical Terms Flashcards
An extended narrative in prose or verse in which characters, events, and settings represent abstract qualities and in which the writer intends a second meaning to be read beneath the surface of the story; the underlying meaning may be moral, religious, political, social, or satiric.
Allegory
An allusion is a reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or to make a point.
Allusion
a short, simple narrative of an incident; often used for humorous effect or to make a point.
anecdote
is a rhetorical device that features the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences, phrases, or clauses. Anaphora works as a literary device to allow writers to convey, emphasize, and reinforce meaning.
Anaphora
a stylistic device used in literature and poetry to intentionally eliminate conjunctions between the praises, and in the sentence, yet maintain grammatical accuracy.
Asyndeton
It rather connects the clauses with a conjunction. “ I came and I saw and I conquered.”
Polysyndeton
Syndeton includes the addition of multiple conjunctions, such as in this example: “ he eats and sleeps and drinks.”
Syndeton
indicated the same word returns at the end of each sentence. Epistrophe is a stylistic device that can be defined as the repetition of phrases or words at the ends of the clauses or sentences.
Epistrophe
is a combination of two words, “snide” and “remark,” which means a sarcastic comment.
snark
is the presentation of two contrasting images. The ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs. “ to be or not the be..”
Antithesis
is a rhetorical device that starts an argument with a reference to something general, and from this it draws a conclusion about something more specific.
syllogism
a word or phrase (including slang) used in everyday conversation and informal writing but that is often inappropriate in formal writing ( ya’ll, ain’t )
colloquialism
