Part 1

Question 0

The goal of a writer or speaker hopes to achieve with the text

Answer 0

Aim

Question 1

Reading to experience the world of the text

Answer 1

Aesthetic Reading

Question 2

An extended metaphor

Answer 2

Allegory

Question 3

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or in the middle of two or more adjacent words

Answer 3

Alliteration

Question 4

The repetition of the last words of one clause at the beginning of the following clause

Answer 4

Anadiplosis

Question 5

A brief narrative offered in a text to capture the audiences attention or to support a generalization or claim

Answer 5

Anecdote

Question 6

Word Choice characterized by simple, often one- or two-syllable, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs

Answer 6

Anglo-Saxon Diction

Question 7

The relationship expressed by “if…then” reasoning

Answer 7

Antecedent-consequence relationship

Question 8

A noun or noun phrase that follows another noun immediately and defines or amplifies it’s meaning

Answer 8

Appositive

Question 9

The omission of conjunctions between related clauses

Answer 9

Asyndeton

Question 10

One of the 4 perspectives that Aristotle explained could be used to generate material about any subject matter: greater or less, possible and impossible, past fact, and future fact

Answer 10

Basic Topic

Question 11

One of the traditional elements of rhetorical composition- invention, arrangement, style, memory, or delivery

Answer 11

Canon

Question 12

The convergence of time, place, audience, and motivating factors in which a piece of writing or a speech is situated

Answer 12

Context

Question 13

Heightening a message by emphasizing pitch, volume, and pause and by using gestures and movements

Answer 13

Declaiming

Question 14

Reasoning that begins with a general principle and concludes with a specific instance that demonstrates the general principle

Answer 14

Deductive Reasoning

Question 15

The describable patterns of language- grammar and vocabulary- used by a particular cultural or ethnic population

Answer 15

Dialect

Question 16

Word choice, which is viewed on scales of formality/ informality, concreteness/abstraction, Latinate derivation/ Anglo-Saxon derivation, and denotative value/ connotative value

Answer 16

Diction

Question 17

The double (or multiple) meanings of a group of words that the speaker or writer has purposely left ambiguous

Answer 17

Double entendre

Question 18

A type of poem, popular primarily in the nineteenth century, in which the speaker is delivering a monologue to an assumed group of listeners

Answer 18

Dramatic monologue

Question 19

The emotional or psychological impact a text has on a reader or listener

Answer 19

Effect

Question 20

Reading to garner information from a text

Answer 20

Efferent reading

Question 21

Logical reasoning with one premise left

unstated

Answer 21

Enthymeme

Question 22

The appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrator

Answer 22

Ethos

Question 23

The facts, statistics, anecdotes, and examples that a speaker or writer offers in support of a claim, generalization, or conclusion

Answer 23

Evidence

Question 24

An extended passage arguing that if two things are similar in one or two ways, they are probably similar in other ways as well

Answer 24

Extended analogy

Question 25

A narrative in which fictional characters, often animals, take actions that have ethical or moral significance

Answer 25

Fable

Question 26

A piece of writing classified by type

Answer 26

Genre

Question 27

A systematic strategy or method for solving problems

Answer 27

Heuristic

Question 28

An exaggeration for effect

Answer 28

Hyperbole

Question 29

A passage of text that evokes sensation or emotional intensity

Answer 29

Image

Question 30

Reasoning that begins by citing a number of specific instances or examples and then shows how collectively they constitute a general principle

Answer 30

Inductive reasoning

Question 31

The specialized vocabulary of a particular group

Answer 31

Jargon

Question 32

A sentence that adds modifying elements after the subject, verb, and complement

Answer 32

Loose sentence

Question 33

An implied comparison that does not use the word like or as

Answer 33

Metaphor

Question 34

The feeling that a text is intended to produce in the audience

Answer 34

Mood

Question 35

A literary device in which the sound of a word is related to its meaning

Answer 35

Onomatopoeia

Question 36

A set if similarly structured words, phrases, or clauses that appears in a sentence or paragraph

Answer 36

Parallelism

Question 37

A sentence with modifying elements included before the verb and/ or complement

Answer 37

Periodic sentence

Question 38

Begging of the question;. Disagreeing with premises or reasoning

Answer 38

Petitio principi

Question 39

Louise Rosenblatt's term for the interpretive moment when reader and text connect

Answer 39

Poem

Question 40

The art of analyzing choices involving language that a writer, speaker, or reader might make in a situation so that the text becomes meaningful, purposeful, and effective

Answer 40

Rhetoric

Question 41

A question posed by the speaker or writer not to seek an answer but instead to affirm or deny a point simply by asking a question about it

Answer 41

Rhetorical Question

Question 42

An artful variation from typical formation and arrangement of words or sentences

Answer 42

Scheme

Question 43

Dialogue in which a character speaks aloud to himself or herself

Answer 43

Soliloquy

Question 44

Logical reasoning from inarguable premises

Answer 44

Syllogism

Question 45

The order of words in a sentence

Answer 45

Syntax

Question 46

A group of words that merely repeats the meaning already conveyed

Answer 46

Tautology

Question 47

An artful variation from expected modes of expression of thoughts and ideas

Answer 47

Trope

Question 48

The quality of a text that reflects the truth of actual experience

Answer 48

Verisimilitude

Question 49

The textual features, such as diction and sentence structure, that convey a writers or speakers persona

Answer 49

Voice