Rhetorical Terms 5/12

Question 1

Catharsis

Answer 1

Releasing strong or pent-up emotions and feeling renewed

Question 2

Spoonerism

Answer 2

Switches the initial sounds or letters of two or more words

Question 3

Mondergreen

Answer 3

Word or phrase that results from mishearing or misinterpreting a statement or song lyric
(Gives it a new meaning)

Question 4

Enumeratio

Answer 4

Listing of details

Question 5

Antanaclasis

Answer 5

World or phrases is repeatedly used, though the meaning of the world changes in each case

Question 6

Metalepsis

Answer 6

Extends a figure of speech beyond it original context, transferring meaning between distinct conceptual domains to create layered interpetation

Question 7

Conundrum

Answer 7

Difficult problem or puzzle

Question 8

Aesthetic

Answer 8

principles that guide the beauty, style, mood, or sensory

Question 9

Canon

Answer 9

The five parts of rhetoric from ancient Greek and Roman tradition:
Invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery