Rhetorical Terms 3 Flashcards
Mood
Speakers attitude; attitude of the writing
Narrative
Telling of a story
Onomatopoeia
Natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words
Oxymoron
Contradictory terms; “jumbo shrimp”
Paradox
Self- contradictory sentence; “fair is foul, and foul is fair”
Parallelism
Structural similarity
Parody
Work that imitates the style or content of another with aim of comic effect
Pedantic
Adjective that describes phrases that are very scholarly
Periodic sentence
Central meaning in a main clause at the end
Personification
Human attributes
Point of View
Perspective from which the story is told
Predicate adjective
Adjective that follows a linking verb
Predicate Norminative
Noun that renames the subject
Prose
Major divisions of genre; fiction and nonfiction
Repetition
Duplication of either sound, word, etc.