Part 2

Question 0

Anaphora

Answer 0

The repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses

Question 1

Allusion

Answer 1

A reference in a written or spoken text to another text or to some particular body of knowledge

Question 2

Antimetabole

Answer 2

The repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order

Question 3

Antithesis

Answer 3

The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas, often in parallel structure

Question 4

Apology

Answer 4

An elaborate statement justifying some controversial, even contentious position

Question 5

Apostrophe

Answer 5

Type of soliloquy where nature is address as though human

Question 6

Appeal to authority

Answer 6

In a text, the reference to words, action, or beliefs of a person in authority as a means of supporting claim, generalization, or conclusion

Question 7

Argument

Answer 7

A carefully constructed, well-supported representation of how a writer sees an issue, problem, or subject

Question 8

Assonance

Answer 8

The repetition of vowel sounds in the stresses syllables of two or more adjacent words

Question 9

Begging of the question

Answer 9

The situation that results when a writer or speaker constructs an argument on an assumption that the audience does not accept

Question 10

Causal relationship

Cause-and-effect relationship

Answer 10

The relationship expressing “if X is the cause, then Y is the effect,” or, “ If Y is the effect then X caused it”

Question 11

Claim

Answer 11

The ultimate conclusion, generalization, or point that a syllogism or Enthymeme expresses. The point, backed up by support, of an argument.

Question 12

Complex sentence

Answer 12

A sentence with one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses

Question 13

Compound sentence

Answer 13

A sentence with two or more independent clauses

Question 14

Conflict

Answer 14

The struggle of characters with themselves, with others, or with the world around them

Question 15

Connotation

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The implied meaning of a word, in contrast to its directly expressed “dictionary meaning”

Question 16

Context

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

Question 17

Data

As evidence

Answer 17

Facts, statistics, and examples that a speaker or writer offers in support of a claim, generalization, or conclusion.

Question 18

Denotation

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The dictionary definition of a word, in contrast to its connotation, or implied meaning

Question 19

Ellipsis

Answer 19

The omission of words, the meaning of which is provided by the overall context of a passage

Question 20

Epistrophe

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The repetition of a group of words at the end of successive clauses

Question 21

Epithet

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A word or phrase adding a characteristic to a persons name

Question 22

Euphemism

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An indirect expression of unpleasant information in such a way as to lessen its impact

Question 23

Exordium

Answer 23

In ancient roman ocatory, the introduction of a speech, meant to draw the audience into the speech

Question 24

Figurative Language

Answer 24

Language dominated by the use of schemes and tropes

Question 25

Generalization

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A point that a speaker or writer generates in the basis of considering a number of particular examples

Question 26

House analogy

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In ancient roman oratory, the method that speakers used to memorize their speeches, connecting the indri diction to the porch of a house, the narration and partition to the front foyer, the confirmation and refutation to rooms connected to the foyer, and the conclusion to the back door

Question 27

Imagery

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Language that provokes particular sensations or emotionally rich experiences in a reader

Question 28

Implied metaphor

Answer 28

A metaphor embedded in a sentence rather than expresses directly as a sentence.

Question 29

Inference

Answer 29

A conclusion that a reader or listener reaches by means if his or her own thinking rather than by direct statement in a text

Question 30

Intention

Answer 30

The goal a writer or speaker hopes to achieve with the text | Also called aim and purpose

Question 31

Irony

Answer 31

Writing or speaking that implies the contrary of what is actually written or spoken

Question 32

Jargon

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The specialized vocabulary of a particular group

Question 33

Latinate diction

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Vocabulary characterized by the choice of elaborate, often complicated words derived from Latin roots

Question 34

Litotes

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Understatement

Question 35

Logos

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The appeal of a text based on the logical structure of its argument or central ideas

Question 36

Metonymy

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An entity referred to by one of its attributes or associations

Question 37

Mnemonic device

Answer 37

A systematic aid to memory

Question 38

Oxymoron

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Juxtaposed words with seemingly contradictory meanings

Question 39

Paradox

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A statement that seems untrue on the surface but is true nevertheless

Question 40

Parenthesis

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An insertion of material that interrupts the typical flow of a sentence

Question 41

Pathos

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The appeal of a text to the emotions or interests of the audience

Question 42

Pentad

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Kenneth burkes system for analyzing motives and actions in communication. The five points of the pentad are act, agent, agency, scene, and purpose.

Question 43

Periphrasis

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The substitution of an attributive word or phrase for a proper name, or the use of a proper name to suggest a personality characteristic

Question 44

Peroration

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In ancient roman oratory, the part of the speech in which the speaker would draw together the entire argument and include material designed to compel the audience to think or act in a way consonant with the central argument.

Question 45

Persona

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The character that a writer or speaker conveys to the audience; the plural is personae

Question 46

Personification

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The giving of human characteristics to inanimate objects

Question 47

Recursive

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Referring to the moving back and forth from invention to revision in the process of writing

Question 48

Refutation

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In ancient roman oratory, the part of speech on which the speaker would anticipate objections to the points being raised and counter them

Question 49

Rhetoric

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The art of analyzing all the choices involving language that a writer, speaker, reader, or listener might make in a situation so that the text becomes meaningful, purposeful, and effective; the specific features of texts, written or spoken, that cause them to be meaningful, purposeful, and effective for readers or listeners in a situation

Question 50

Simile

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A type of comparison that used the word like or as

Question 51

Stance

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A writers or speakers apparent attitude toward the audience

Question 52

Style

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The choices that writers or speakers make in language for effect

Question 53

Synecdoche

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A part of something used to refer to the whole

Question 54

Zeugma

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A trope in which one word, usually a noun or the main verb, governs two other words not related in meaning