Rhetorical Terms 1

Question 0

The goal the writer or speaker hopes to achieve with the text.
Ex: to persuade, to inform

Answer 0

Aim

Question 1

Reading to experience the world of the text

Answer 1

Aesthetic reading

Question 2

An extended metaphor

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Allegory

Question 3

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

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Alliteration

Question 4

The repetition if the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause

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Anadiplosis

Question 5

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

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Anecdote

Question 6

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

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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 its meaning.

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Appositive

Question 9

The omission of conjunctions between related clauses.

Ex: “I came, I saw, I conquered”

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Asyndeton

Question 10

One of four perspectives that Aristotle explained could be used to generate material about and subject matter: greater or less, possible and impossible.

Answer 10

Basic topic

Question 11

One of the traditional elements of rhetorical composition- invention, arrangement, style, memory, or delivery.
(A thing that is actually a part of the story not something fantasized)

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.

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Context

Question 13

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

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Declaiming

Question 14

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

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Deductive reasoning

Question 15

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

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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.

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Diction

Question 17

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

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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.

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Dramatic monologue

Question 19

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

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Effect

Question 20

Reading to garner info from the text

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Efferent reading

Question 21

Logical reasoning with one premise left unstated.

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Enthymeme

Question 22

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

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Ethos

Question 23

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

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Evidence

Question 24

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

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Extended analogy

Question 25

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

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Fable

Question 26

A piece of writing classified by type Ex: letter, narrative, eulogy, editorial

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Genre

Question 27

A systematic strategy or method for solving problems.

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Heuristic

Question 28

Am exaggeration for effect

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Hyperbole

Question 29

A passage of text that evokes sensation or emotional intensity

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Image

Question 30

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

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Inductive reasoning

Question 31

The specialized vocabulary of a specific group

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Jargon

Question 32

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

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Loose sentence

Question 33

An implied comparison that doesn't use the words like or as. The most important of all the tropes. Ex: his voice was a cascade of emotion

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Metaphor

Question 34

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

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Mood

Question 35

A literary device in which the sound of a word is related to its meaning. Ex: buzz, moan

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Onomatopoeia

Question 36

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

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Parallelism

Question 37

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

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Periodic sentence

Question 38

Begging of the question; disagreeing with premises or reasoning

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Petitio Principi

Question 39

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

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Poem

Question 40

The are 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.

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Rhetoric

Question 41

a question posed by the speaker or writer nor to seek and answer but instead to affirm or deny a point simply be asking a question about it.

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Rhetorical question

Question 42

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

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Scheme

Question 43

Dialogue in which a character speaks aloud to himself/herself.

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Soliloquy

Question 44

Logical reasoning from inarguable premises.

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Syllogism

Question 45

The order of words in a sentence

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Syntax

Question 46

A group of words that merely repeats the meaning already conveyed.

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Tautology

Question 47

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

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Trope

Question 48

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

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Verisimilitude

Question 49

The textual features, such as diction and sentence structure, that convey a writer's or speaker's persona.

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Voice