Stillson's Terms.3

Question 1

Juxtaposition

Answer 1

Placing two very different things together for effect

Question 2

Logos

Answer 2

Appealing to someone’s sense of concrete facts and logic

Question 3

Metaphor

Answer 3

A direct comparison of two unlike things; an extended metaphor carries the properties of the metaphor throughout the piece

Question 4

Metonymy

Answer 4

A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it

Question 5

Occasion

Answer 5

The reason or moment for writing or speaking

Question 6

Organization

Answer 6

How the different parts of an argument are arranged in a piece of writing or speech

Question 7

Paradox

Answer 7

A phrase or assertion that appears to contradict itself (but the contradiction itself may have its own meaning)

Question 8

Parallelism

Answer 8

Repeated structural elements in a sentence

Question 9

Parody

Answer 9

Using the form of something to mimic and make fun of it

Question 10

Pathos

Answer 10

An Aristotelian appeal. Involves appealing to someone’s emotions

Question 11

Personification

Answer 11

Giving human characteristics to a nonhuman object or idea

Question 12

Point of View (POV)

Answer 12

The perspective from which a story is told. Stories may be told by a narrator or by specific characters or in the first person

Question 13

Purpose

Answer 13

The author’s persuasive intention

Question 14

Repetition

Answer 14

Re-using a word or phrase repeatedly for effect or emphasis

Question 15

Rhetoric

Answer 15

The use of spoken or written word (or a visual medium) to convey your ideas and convince an audience