Knecht Rhetorical Devices Flashcards
(104 cards)
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Absolute
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Term applied to totally independent of influences, limitations, etc.. Ex: all, always, never
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Allegory
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Story, represents moral qualities
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Alliteration
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Repetition of identical Sounds
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Allusion
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Makes a brief reference to something else
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Ambiguity
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A situation with more than one possible interpretation
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Analogy
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Comparison between 2 things
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Anaphora
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Repetition using words or phrases
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Anecdote
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Short entertaining story
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Anticlimax
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Sudden drop
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Aphorism
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A short statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle
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Argumentation
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Investigates all sides, persuasion through reason
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Attitude
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Similar to tone
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Balanced sentences
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Parallel clauses
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Cause and effect
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Examines cause and effect
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Chiasmus
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A pattern in which the second is balanced with the first but the first is reversed. Ex: sin is a pleasure, and sometimes pleasure is a sin
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Chronological order
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In order in which they occur
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Classification as a means of ordering
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Arrangement according to class
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Colloquial expression
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Words used in writing but not in everyday language
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Cumulative sentence
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Sentence begins with subject and predicate, adds modifiers
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Damning with faint praise
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Intentional use of a positive statement to have a negative impact
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Deduction
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Form of reason that begins with a generalization
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Denouement
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Untying of complications of plot, play, story
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Detail
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Describing or relating an object or scene with complete particulars
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Devices
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Figures of speech
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Dialect
Form of language spoken by the people in that region
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Diction
Writers word choice
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Digression
A temporary departure from subject
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Ellipsis
Omission of words necessary for complete construction but left understood in context.
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Epiphany
A sudden insight of the true nature of something
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Epistrophe
Anaphora, but repetition is at the end
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Euphemism
A phrase that's less direct."he passed away" for "he is dead"
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Fallacy
An error in reasoning
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Fallacy: Begging the question
Assumes truth without support
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Fallacy: Circular Reasoning
Evidence is a restatement of the claim
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Fallacy: Either/or
Claims there are only two alternatives when actually there are more
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Fallacy: False Analogy
Assumes that two subjects are similar in some respect just because they are similar in some other respect.
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Fallacy: Overgeneralization
Statement that is too broad or inclusive
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Fallacy: Post hoc, ergo propter hoc
The assumption that an event is caused by another even simply because of the order of the events in time
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False dilemma
Fallacy, when too few of available arguments are considered, some are not
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Figurative language/ Figures of Speech
Intentional departure from the normal order or meaning of words
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Genre
A division or type of literature
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Hyperbole
An exaggeration of fact
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Imagery
Authors use of words to creat a picture. 5 senses
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Induction
Form of reasoning. Works from a Body of fact to formation of a generalization
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Inference/infer
To draw a conclusion
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Inverted Syntax
Reversing the normal word order of a sentence. Yoda!!
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Irony
Style that indicates an intention opposite of what is actually said. Humorous or sarcastic
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Irony: Verbal
What is said, is opposite of what is meant
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Irony: Situation
Situation where there is a incongruity between the actual situation and what would seem appropriate
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Irony: Dramatic
A discrepancy between what a character says and what the reader knows to be true
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Juxtaposition
Where Ideas, words, colors, shapes, etc. are places next to each other creating an effect if surprise and wit
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Language
Manner of expression used to communicate feeling, tone, attitude
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Loose Sentences (cumulative)
Subject, predicate, modifiers, adds modifiers
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Metonymy
Replaces one thing with another similar to it
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Mood
Atmosphere or emotional aura of a work
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Motif
Serves as a basis for expanded narrative, or an interest
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Metaphor
Thing Compared to another thing as though it were a thing.
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Narrative Techniques
The manner in which the author tells the story
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Nonfiction
Prose writing that explains ideas or tells about real things, events
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Non Sequitur
Similar to fallacy, a statement that does not follow logically to anything previously said
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Order of importance
A Method of organizing according to significance of the subtopics
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Chronological
Order in which events take place
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Spatial
The physical description of persons and places
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In medias res
Author stats in the middle and uses techniques of flashback and foreshadow
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Oxymoron
Contradictory terms or ideas are combined
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Parallel syntactic structures
Using the same part of speech of syntactic structure. Ex: over the hill and through the woods to grandmothers house we go
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Parallelism
The repetition of a grammatical structure
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Paradox
A statement that seems contradictory but actually may be true
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Pathos
The quality in a work that evokes sorry or pity
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Pedantry
A display of narrow minded and trivial scholarship or arbitrary adherence to rules and forms
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Periodic Sentence Structure
Long sentence where the completion of the syntax and sense is delayed until the end
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Personification
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object is given human attributes
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Persuasive Devices
Words in the passage that have strong connotations, words that intensify the emotional effect
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Persona
The voice an author uses to tell a story
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Persuasion
Taking a single position for the purpose of getting others to accept that position
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Phrasing
Single part of speech, may help present rhythm, may help shoe parallelism
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Point of View
The angle of vision from which a story is told
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Omniscient
The author tells story using 3rd person
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First person
Told by one of the story's characters
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Third person
Shows an unrestricted knowledge of the story's events from outside or above them
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Limited omniscient
Tells story in third person but tells only what the one character thinks, feels, sees, etc
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Multiple point of view
Shown the positions from two or more characters
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Prose
Genre, refers to fiction and nonfiction, closely resembles every day speech
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Purpose
Goal or aim of the literary work
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Resources of language (75)
Refers to all the devices of composition available. The cumulative effect
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Rhetoric
Art of using words effectively to persuade
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Rhetorical question
Asked for rhetorical effect to emphasize a point, no answer being expected
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Rhetorical structure
How the passage is constructed, to serve its purpose
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Satire
A writing the ridicules or criticizes individuals, ideas, institutions, or any work of literature
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Sentence structure (80)
The way the sentence is put together
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AP Exam
Analyze sentence structure, types of sentences used, effects
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Stream or Consciousness
Narrative that presents the private thoughts of a character without commentary or interpretation by the author
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Structure
The planned framework of the novel
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Style
The habitual manner of expression of an author
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Stylistic devices (85)
Note and analyze all of the elements in language that contribute to style
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Syllepsis
A grammatical correct construction in which one word is placed in the same grammatical relationship to two words but in quite different senses
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Syllogism
Form of reasoning in which two statements or premises are made a logical conclusion is drawn from them, deductive reasoning
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Symbol
Something that stands for another thing, used to represent an abstraction
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Synesthesia
A blending or confusion of different kinds of sense-impression, In which one type of sensation is referred to in terms more appropriate to another
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Syncope (90)
Cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ex) ev'ry for every
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Synecdoche
Figure of speech in which part is substituted for the whole
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Syntax
The arrangement of words or elements in a sentence to show their relationship
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Tone
Authors attitude toward his subject and audience expressed through characters' action and speech
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Understatement
Deliberately representing something as much less than it really is
