Rhetorical Terms Quiz 1

Question 1

Syntax

Answer 1

The sequence of words within a given sentence that helps cue a reader’s understanding of specific grammatical and/ or rhetorical roles those words are meant to play in the sentence.

Question 2

Narration/narrative/narrate

Answer 2

Writing or speaking that tells a story or recounts a sequence of events, fictional or actual, primarily through prose or verse, through many narratives also include dialouge.

Question 3

Fiction

Answer 3

A mode of writing that narrates or dramatized IMAGINED events or persons that do not exist in the actual world, past or present? Even if these imagined events or persons appear plausible, “realistic”

Question 5

Representation

Answer 5

In verbal context, the use of language to call to mind the appearance of and relations among objects, people, phenomena, (happenings) and ideas.

Question 6

Anecdote

Answer 6

A brief account or narrative of an interesting or humorous event, which may be revealing or engaging, but is based on casual observations or indications rather than rigorous or scientific analysis or information gathering.

Question 7

Genre

Answer 7

A commonly recognized type of literary or other cultural text of work such as novel, play, poem, etc.

Question 8

Convention

Answer 8

A stylistic or symbolic device, dramatic situation, character type, reading practice, etc. That reoccurs again and again in literary and other cultural texts.

Question 9

Discourse

Answer 9

Use of language understood to be shaped by changing (and sometimes contending) historical and social cultural influences.

Question 10

Style

Answer 10

A pattern of emphasis or de-emphasis within the received norms or range of a language’s grammar, syntax, and/or vocabulary that is perceived by readers to be individual or otherwise distinctive when compared to that norm or range.

Question 11

Prose

Answer 11

Ordinary linear form or mode of most modern( 1700 to present) written language in which the sentence and the paragraph (rather than the verse or other graphic devices) are the most prominent visual markers of completed and differentiated ideas, rhyme and/or meter are not foreground formal features.

Question 12

Mood

Answer 12

The emotional atmosphere projected onto a scene or situation that is described or developed in a given cultural text or situation.

Question 13

Tone

Answer 13

Emotional quality and/or attitude projected by a voice.

Question 14

Novel

Answer 14

A lengthy fictional narrative written in prose.

Question 15

Diction

Answer 15

Uses of language that market as formal or informal (or somewhere in between), or suited to a specific speaking occasion or writing situation.

Question 16

History

Answer 16

A lengthy non fictional account of past events usually written in prose.

Question 17

Account

Answer 17

Narrative records of an event or situation usually understood to reflect a particular advantage point rather than a comprehensive picture.

Question 18

Rhetoric

Answer 18

Language intended and arranged to persuade or produce some other deliver effect for or upon an audience.

Question 19

Grammar

Answer 19

Systematic logic and labels used to explain the function of a different types of words within a language.

Question 20

Non-fiction

Answer 20

A mode of writing, describing or discussing some aspect of the actual world, past or present.

Question 21

Aesthetic

Answer 21

To do with artistic or sensory feelings, impressions, especially with the sense of what constitutes the “beautiful” versus the “ugly”.

Question 22

Verse

Answer 22

A common form or mode of ancient sacred and poetic language, but almost exclusively a “poetic” form in modern language in which sequences of words are arranged metrically and set in lines of deliberate lengths according to some conventional rule or design.