Q1 - Rhetoric Terms

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Alliteration

Question 2

Brief reference to a person, event, or place

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Allusion

Question 3

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

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Anaphora

Question 4

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

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Antithesis

Question 5

Omission of conjunctions between coordinate planes, clauses, or words

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Asyndenton

Question 6

The listener, viewer, or reader of a text

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Audience

Question 7

An acknowledgement that a counter argument may be true or reasonable

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Concession

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Connotation

Question 9

Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and adds on

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Cumulative Sentence

Question 10

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

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Hortative Sentence

Question 11

Sentence used to command or enjoin

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Imperative Sentence

Question 12

Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end

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Periodic Sentence

Question 13

Inverted order of words in a sentence

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Inversion

Question 14

Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences

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Juxtaposition

Question 15

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

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Metaphor

Question 16

Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another

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Oxymoron

Question 17

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

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Persona

Question 18

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

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Personification

Question 19

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

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Polemic

Question 20

The spread of ideas or information to further a cause

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Propaganda

Question 21

The goal the speaker wants to achieve

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Purpose

Question 22

A denial of the validity of an opposing argument

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Refutation

Question 23

A logical structure that uses the major premise and minor premise to reach a necessary conclusion

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Syllogism

Question 24

Figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole

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Synecdoche

Question 25

Any cultural product that can be read

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Text

Question 26

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

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Zeugma