Literary Terms Ch 1

Question 1

The listener, viewer, or reader of a text

Answer 1

Audience

Question 2

An acknowledgement that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable

Answer 2

Concession

Question 3

Meanings or associations that readers have with a word beyond its dictionary definition or denotation.

Answer 3

Connotation

Question 4

The circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text

Answer 4

Context

Question 5

An opposing argument to the one a writer is putting forward.

Answer 5

Counterargument

Question 6

Greek for “character”. Speakers appeal to ethos to demonstrate that they are credible and trustworthy to speak on a given topic.

Answer 6

Ethos

Question 7

Greek for “embodied thought”. Speakers appeal to logos, or reason, by offering clear rational ideas and using specific evidence.

Answer 7

Logos

Question 8

The time and place a speech is given or a piece is written.

Answer 8

Occasion

Question 9

Greek for “suffering” or “experience”. Speakers appeal to pathos to emotionally motivate their audience.

Answer 9

Pathos

Question 10

Greek for “mask”. The face or character that a speaker shows to his or her audience.

Answer 10

Persona

Question 11

Greek for “hostile”. An aggressive argument that tries to establish the superiority of one opinion over all others.

Answer 11

Polemic

Question 12

Propaganda

Answer 12

The spread of ideas and information to further a cause.

Question 13

The goal the speaker wants to achieve.

Answer 13

Purpose

Question 14

A denial of the validity of an opposing argument. They often follow a concession.

Answer 14

Refutation

Question 15

“The faculty of observing in any given case the available means to persuasion”. The art of finding ways to persuade an audience.

Answer 15

Rhetoric

Question 16

Rhetorical techniques used to persuade an audience by emphasizing what they find most important or compelling. (Ethos, Logos, Pathos).

Answer 16

Rhetorical Examples

Question 17

A diagram that illustrates the interrelationship among the speaker, audience, and subject in determining a text.

Answer 17

Rhetorical Triangle

Question 18

A mnemonic device that stands for Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, and Speaker

Answer 18

SOAPS

Question 19

The person or group who creates a text.

Answer 19

Speaker

Question 20

The topic of a text and what the text is about.

Answer 20

Subject

Question 21

Any cultural product that can be “read”

Answer 21

Text

Question 22

Repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in sequence

Answer 22

Alliteration

Question 23

Brief reference to a person event or place or a work of art.

Answer 23

Allusion

Question 24

Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines

Answer 24

Anaphora

Question 25

Repetition of words in reverse order.

Answer 25

Antimetabole

Question 26

Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction.

Answer 26

Antithesis

Question 27

Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words.

Answer 27

Archaic Diction

Question 28

Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words.

Answer 28

Asyndenton

Question 29

Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence.

Answer 29

Cumulative Sentence

Question 30

Sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action.

Answer 30

Normative Sentence

Question 31

Sentence used to command or enjoin.

Answer 31

Imperative Sentence

Question 32

Inverted order of words in a sentence

Answer 32

Inversion

Question 33

Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences.

Answer 33

Juxtaposition

Question 34

Figure of Speech that compares two things without using like or as

Answer 34

Metaphor

Question 35

Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another.

Answer 35

Oxymoron

Question 36

Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses

Answer 36

Parallelism

Question 37

Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end

Answer 37

Periodic Sentence

Question 38

Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea.

Answer 38

Personification

Question 39

Figure of Speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer

Answer 39

Rhetorical Question

Question 40

Figure of speech that uses parts to represent a whole

Answer 40

Synecdoche

Question 41

Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different often incongruous, meanings.

Answer 41

Zeugma