Rhetorical Strategies- 3

Question 1

auxesis

Answer 1

magnifying the importance of something by referring it with a disproportionate name (calling a scratch a wound)

Question 2

begging of the question

Answer 2

writer constructs an argument on an assumption that the audience does not accept

Question 3

complex sentence

Answer 3

one independent clause, one or more dependent clause

Question 4

epistrophe

Answer 4

repetition of the same last word or phrase

Question 5

exordium

Answer 5

“web” meant to draw the audience in

Question 6

heuristic

Answer 6

strategy or method for solving problems

Question 7

hyperbaton

Answer 7

unusual or invented word order (Size matter not. Judge me by my size, do you?)

Question 8

litotes

Answer 8

understatement

Question 9

petitio principi

Answer 9

begging of the question

Question 10

polyptoton/ scesis onomation

Answer 10

repetition of words that mean the same

Question 11

prosopopoeia

Answer 11

personification

Question 12

conduplicatio

Answer 12

repetition of a key word

Question 13

symploce

Answer 13

two or more sentences with repetition of beginning and end

Question 14

epizeuxis

Answer 14

series of repetition of words in quick succession (No, no, no life!)

Question 15

aporia

Answer 15

doubts (real/fake) and asks audience; develop arguments on both side

Question 16

metabasis

Answer 16

brief statement of what has been said and what will be said

Question 17

metanoia

Answer 17

self correction

Question 18

expletive

Answer 18

extra phrase, interupts syntax

Question 19

eponym

Answer 19

use the name of someone famous