Test #3 Metaphor to Rhetoric Flashcards
1
Q
metaphor
A
figure of speech with implied comparison
2
Q
metonymy
A
changed label
3
Q
mood
A
speaker’s attitude/emotional aura
4
Q
motif
A
symbols representing central idea
5
Q
narrative
A
telling of a story
6
Q
onomatopoeia
A
natural sounds imitated “buzz”
7
Q
oxymoron
A
foolish description (jumbo shrimp, cruel kindness)
8
Q
paradox
A
contradiction
9
Q
parellelism
A
roots beside one another
10
Q
parable
A
story with lesson “boy who cried wolf”
11
Q
parody
A
mimicking an original
12
Q
pedantic
A
academic in nature
13
Q
personification
A
apply human things to non human things
14
Q
point of view
A
perspective
15
Q
polysyndeton
A
fanboys for and nor but or yet so
