Rhetorical Terms Flashcards
Ethos
Appeals to credibility.
Pathos
Appeals to emotions.
Logos
Appeals to logic.
Rhetorical Question
A question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer.
Personification
Human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract ideas.
Juxtaposition
Placement of two concepts closely together to emphasize similarities or differences.
Anaphora
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrase, clauses, or lines.
Allusion
Brief reference to a person, event, or place(real or fictitious) or to a work of art.
Synecdoche
Figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole.
Rhetoric
The faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.
Antithesis
Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction using balanced opposites.
Inversion
Inverted order of words in a sentence
Cumulative Sentence
Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on.
Periodic Sentence
Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end.
Chiasmus
The second half of a phrase is in reverse order from the first part of the phrase.
