Rhetorical Strategies- 1 Flashcards
(15 cards)
antanaclasis
repetition of a word in two different senses (If we do not hang together, we will hang separately)
anticipated objection/procatalepsis
addresses and answer objections
antimetabole
reverse the order of repeated words (When the GOING gets TOUGH, the TOUGH gets GOING)
apologist
a person or character who makes a case for some controversial position
apology
an elaborate statement justifying some controversial position
cloze test
a test of reading ability that requires a person to fill in missing words in a text
compound statement
two or more nouns constitute the grammatical subject of a clause (the DOG AND CAT SCURRIED away from the car)
epanalepsis
begins and end the same way (Blood hath brought blood)
compound sentence
has two or more independent clauses
efferent reading
reading to gain information from a text
enthymeme
logical reasoning with one premise left unstated
stock setting
stereotypical time and place settings that let readers know a text’s genre immediately
anadiplosis
word chain
anthimeria
substitution of one part of speech for another
appositive
a noun or noun phrase that follows another noun immediately or defines its meaning