Rhetorical Terms

Question 1

analogy

Answer 1

to make a pointed comparison often a very powerful comparison

Question 2

hyperbole

Answer 2

to provoke a response, to cost something in a strong light

Question 3

understatement

Answer 3

to spark the readers imagination, or make a pointed observation

Question 4

juxtaposition

Answer 4

to call attention to extremes

Question 5

imagery

Answer 5

to illustrate an idea, a feeling or the particular qualities of something to produce a feeling, idea or tone

Question 6

alliteration

Answer 6

to create a memorable phrase

Question 7

allusion

Answer 7

to lend authority to an idea, to make an association with something the reader knows to create a memorable phrase

Question 8

anaphora

Answer 8

to create a memorable, powerful effect, to reinforce an idea

Question 9

tone

Answer 9

to communicate an attitude towards the subject

Question 10

undertone

Answer 10

to communicate an attitude towards the subject that cuts the attitude that appears on the surface

Question 11

irony

Answer 11

to convey complexity (problem)

Question 12

paradox

Answer 12

to point out an apparent contradiction

Question 13

anecdote

Answer 13

to provide a concrete example or humanize an abstract concept

Question 14

humor

Answer 14

to disarm the audience, diffuse hostility, warm the reader to the writer’s ideas

Question 15

satire

Answer 15

to ridicule (mockery) and inspire reform

Question 16

sarcasm, irony

Answer 16

to ridicule or crtiticize

Question 17

invective

Answer 17

to ridicule, chastise (reprove) or convey contempt

Question 18

narrative pace

Answer 18

to convey energy or intense feelings

Question 19

rhetorical question

Answer 19

to provoke the readers to respond or to think, or to lad them to the next idea to call attention to an idea

Question 20

short, staccato sentences

Answer 20

to call attention to an idea

Question 21

paralipsis

Answer 21

to draw attention something while pretending not to dos o

Question 22

litotes

Answer 22

to draw attention to something while pretending to be subtle

Question 23

parallelism

Answer 23

similarity of structure in a pairs or series related words, phrases or clauses

Question 24

isocolon

Answer 24

is a scheme of parallel structure that occurs when the parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure but also in length

Question 25

antithesis

Answer 25

the juxtaposition of contacting idea often in parallel structure

Question 26

anastrophe

Answer 26

the inversion of natural word order

Question 27

parenthesis

Answer 27

insertion some verbal unit in position that interrupts the norma syntactical flow of the sentence
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Question 28

ellipsis

Answer 28

deliberate omission of a words or of words

Question 29

asyndeton

Answer 29

deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of words, phrases or clauses

Question 30

polysyndeton

Answer 30

deliberate use of many conjunctions (does not involve omission but is grouped with its opposite asyndeton)

Question 31

alliteration

Answer 31

repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words

Question 32

assonance

Answer 32

the repetition of similar vowel sounds, precede and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words

Question 33

anaphora

Answer 33

repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive phrases

Question 34

epistrophe

Answer 34

repetition of the same word or groups of words at the end of successive phrase

Question 35

epanalepsis

Answer 35

repetition of the same word or words at both beginning and ending of a phrase, clause or sentence.

Question 36

anadiplosis

Answer 36

repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning f the following clause

Question 37

climax

Answer 37

arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance

Question 38

antimetabole

Answer 38

repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order

Question 39

chiasmus

Answer 39

reversal of grammatical structure in successive

Question 40

polyptoton

Answer 40

repetition of words derived from the same root.