Rhetorical Terms Quiz 1 Flashcards
Aesthetic
Pertaining to the value of art or beauty
Abstract
Pertaining to ideas, concepts, or qualities as opposed to physical attributes
Love, hate, agony
Allegory
Narrative form in which characters and actions have meanings outside themselves and are usually personifications of abstract
Wizard of Oz
The crucible
animal Farm
Ambiguity
Use of language in which multiple meetings are possible
Ending of catcher in the Rye
Alliteration
The repetition of initial consonant sounds or any vowels sounds such as a political stance on close proximity
Ryan Raiders
Walter White
Anachronism
Use of historically inaccurate details and text
“Out of place and out of time”
“Lamp post in winter” in Dragon Age
Anadiplosis
Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next clauses
The crime was common, common be the pain
Analogy
Metaphors and Similies
Comparing something known to something unknown
Analytical Writing
A style of writing in which the subject is broken into components and analyzed
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Anti-thesis
The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words or phrases
“Give me Liberty or Give me death”
Anaphora
Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of the successive phrases or clauses
I CAME, I SAW, I CONQUERED
Antagonist
Character or force in a literary work that opposes the main character
Antihero
Protagonist of a literary work who does not invite the traditional qualities of a hero
Walter White
Anathema
A person or thing loathed
Cannibalism or anything taboo
Aphorism
Adage
Maxim
Epigram
Concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief
“Early bird gets the worm”
Apostrophe
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?”
Ethos, Pathos or Logos
Appealing to authority, emotion and logic
Anecdote
A brief story or tale told by a character
Assonance
The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds
“My eye died”
They have the same sound
Asyndeton
The practice of omitting conjunctions between words
“He was brave, fearless, afraid of nothing”
Audience
The persons reached by a piece of writing
Begging the question
Circular reasoning, in which all three reasons are the same just slightly tweaked
Carpe Diem
“Seize the day”; philosophy that one should live life to the fullest
Allusion
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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