Rhetorical Terms 8#

Question 1

Satire

Answer 1

The use of irony or sarcasm to critique society or an individual

Question 2

Scheme

Answer 2

Artful syntax; a deviation from the normal order of words. Common schemes include parallelism, juxtaposition, antithesis, and antimetabole

Question 3

Simile

Answer 3

using comparisons using the words, like, or as, or as through

Question 4

SOAPS

Answer 4

Subject, occasion, audience, purpose, and speaker

Question 5

Speaker

Answer 5

The person or group who creates a text

Question 6

Stance

Answer 6

A speakers attitude toward the audience

Question 7

Straw Man

Answer 7

fallacy that occurs when a speaker chooses a deliberately poor or oversimplified example in order to ridicule and refute an idea

Question 8

Syllogism

Answer 8

If p–>q and q—>r, then p—>r is true

Question 9

Synecdoche

Answer 9

White hair(elderly people)

Question 10

Syntax

Answer 10

The arrangement of words into phrases, clauses, and sentences.

Question 11

Synthesize

Answer 11

to combine two or more ideas in order to create something more complex in support of a new idea