May Voc Flashcards
(19 cards)
A tool for understanding the relationship between the speaker, audience, and message in effective communication. All three must work together for persuasion to succeed.
Rhetorical Triangle
An appeal to credibility or character. The speaker tries to convince the audience they are trustworthy or qualified.
Ethos
An appeal to emotion. The speaker tries to persuade by affecting the audience’s feelings.
Pathos
An appeal to logic or reason. The speaker uses evidence, facts, or logical arguments to persuade.
Logos
The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.
Rhetoric
A logical process where a general statement or principle is applied to a specific case to reach a conclusion.
Deductive Reasoning
A logical process in which specific observations or examples are used to make a general conclusion.
Inductive Reasonibg
A grouped set of lines in a poem, often separated by a space — like a paragraph in prose.
Stanza
A stanza or poem of four lines, usually with a specific rhyme scheme (e.g., ABAB or AABB).
Quatrain
The rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Meter
A type of meter with five iambs per line (an iamb is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one).
Iambic Pentameter
The basic unit of meter in poetry, made up of a specific combination of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Foot
A figure of speech in which the speaker addresses someone absent, dead, or nonhuman as if they were present and capable of responding.
Apostrophe
Rhyme that occurs within a single line of poetry.
Example: “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary…”
Internal rhyme
Rhyme that occurs at the end of lines in poetry.
Example:
“Whose woods these are I think I know,
His house is in the village though.”
End Rhyme
Words that almost rhyme but not quite—similar sounds but not exact matches.
Example: “worm” and “swarm”
Near or slant rhyme
Poetry with no regular meter or rhyme scheme; it follows the natural rhythms of speech
Free Verse
Unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter. It has a regular meter but no rhyme.
Common in Shakespeare’s plays.
Blank verse
When a line of poetry continues onto the next line without a pause or punctuation.
Example:
“I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.”
Enjambment
