Rhetorical Terms #31-40 Flashcards
1
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Metonymy
A
the name of one object that substitutes for another related one
2
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Mood
A
the emotion surrounding a work (atmosphere/setting)
3
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Narrative
A
the telling of an story or account of an event
4
Q
Onomatopoeia
A
natural sounds replace words
5
Q
Oxymoron
A
contradictory terms that suggest a paradox
6
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Paradox
A
self contradictory statement that has some degree of validity
7
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Parallelism
A
grammatical or rhetorical framing of words/phrases that give structural similarity
8
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Parody
A
a work that imitates another to provide comedy or ridicule
9
Q
pedantic
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an adjective that describes things in an overly scholarly way
10
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Periodic Sentence
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A sentence where the central meaning is in a main clause at the end
