Rhetorical Terms 3

Question 1

Mood

Answer 1

Speakers attitude; attitude of the writing

Question 2

Narrative

Answer 2

Telling of a story

Question 3

Onomatopoeia

Answer 3

Natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words

Question 4

Oxymoron

Answer 4

Contradictory terms; “jumbo shrimp”

Question 5

Paradox

Answer 5

Self- contradictory sentence; “fair is foul, and foul is fair”

Question 6

Parallelism

Answer 6

Structural similarity

Question 7

Parody

Answer 7

Work that imitates the style or content of another with aim of comic effect

Question 8

Pedantic

Answer 8

Adjective that describes phrases that are very scholarly

Question 9

Periodic sentence

Answer 9

Central meaning in a main clause at the end

Question 10

Personification

Answer 10

Human attributes

Question 11

Point of View

Answer 11

Perspective from which the story is told

Question 12

Predicate adjective

Answer 12

Adjective that follows a linking verb

Question 13

Predicate Norminative

Answer 13

Noun that renames the subject

Question 14

Prose

Answer 14

Major divisions of genre; fiction and nonfiction

Question 15

Repetition

Answer 15

Duplication of either sound, word, etc.