Rhetorical Terms Quiz 1

Question 0

Aesthetic

Answer 0

Pertaining to the value of art or beauty

Question 1

Abstract

Answer 1

Pertaining to ideas, concepts, or qualities as opposed to physical attributes

Love, hate, agony

Question 2

Allegory

Answer 2

Narrative form in which characters and actions have meanings outside themselves and are usually personifications of abstract

Wizard of Oz
The crucible
animal Farm

Question 3

Ambiguity

Answer 3

Use of language in which multiple meetings are possible

Ending of catcher in the Rye

Question 5

Alliteration

Answer 5

The repetition of initial consonant sounds or any vowels sounds such as a political stance on close proximity

Ryan Raiders
Walter White

Question 6

Anachronism

Answer 6

Use of historically inaccurate details and text

“Out of place and out of time”
“Lamp post in winter” in Dragon Age

Question 7

Anadiplosis

Answer 7

Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next clauses

The crime was common, common be the pain

Question 8

Analogy

Answer 8

Metaphors and Similies

Comparing something known to something unknown

Question 9

Analytical Writing

Answer 9

A style of writing in which the subject is broken into components and analyzed

RHETORICAL ANALYSIS

Question 10

Anti-thesis

Answer 10

The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words or phrases

“Give me Liberty or Give me death”

Question 11

Anaphora

Answer 11

Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of the successive phrases or clauses

I CAME, I SAW, I CONQUERED

Question 12

Antagonist

Answer 12

Character or force in a literary work that opposes the main character

Question 13

Antihero

Answer 13

Protagonist of a literary work who does not invite the traditional qualities of a hero

Walter White

Question 14

Anathema

Answer 14

A person or thing loathed

Cannibalism or anything taboo

Question 15

Aphorism
Adage
Maxim
Epigram

Answer 15

Concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief

“Early bird gets the worm”

Question 16

Apostrophe

Answer 16

When a person, place or thing is addressed as if present

Talking to a grave
Praying to a deity
“Love, why have you left me lonely?”

Question 17

Ethos, Pathos or Logos

Answer 17

Appealing to authority, emotion and logic

Question 18

Anecdote

Answer 18

A brief story or tale told by a character

Question 19

Assonance

Answer 19

The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds

“My eye died”
They have the same sound

Question 20

Asyndeton

Answer 20

The practice of omitting conjunctions between words

“He was brave, fearless, afraid of nothing”

Question 21

Audience

Answer 21

The persons reached by a piece of writing

Question 22

Begging the question

Answer 22

Circular reasoning, in which all three reasons are the same just slightly tweaked

Question 23

Carpe Diem

Answer 23

“Seize the day”; philosophy that one should live life to the fullest

Question 24

Allusion

Answer 24

A figure of speech which makes brief, casual reference for o a historical or literary figure, event or object to create resonance with the reader or apply a symbolic meaning to the character or object of which the allusion consists

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