Rhetorical Terms Test #4 Flashcards
Parody
A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule.
Pedantic
An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish.
Periodic Sentence
A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. Ex. Ecstatic with my AP score, I let out a loud, joyful shout!
Personification
A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions.
Polysyndeton
Figure of addition and emphasis which intentionally employs a series of conjunctions not normally found in successive words, phrases, or clauses; the deliberate and excessive use of conjunctions in successive words or clauses. Ex. They read and studied and wrote and drilled. I laughed and talked and flunked.
Point of View
In literature, the perspective from which a story is told.
Predicate Adjective
One type of subject complement is an adjective, group of adjectives, or adjective clause that follows a linking verb. It is in the predicate of the sentence, and modifies, or describes, the subject.
Predicate Nominative
A second type of subject complement - a noun, group of nouns, or noun clause that names the subject. It, like the predicate adjective, follows a linking verb and is located in the predicate of the sentence.
Prose
One of the major divisions of genre, it refers to fiction and non-fiction, including all its forms.
Repetition
The duplication, either exact or approximate, of any element of language, such as a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern.
Rhetoric
From the Greek for “orator,” this term describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively.
Rhetorical Modes
This flexible term describes the variety, the conventions, and purposes of the major kinds of writing.
Rhetorical Question
Differs from hypophora in that it is not answered by the writer because its answer is obvious or obviously desired, and usually just a yes or no answer would suffice.
Sarcasm
From the Greek meaning “to tear flesh,” this term involves bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something.