Vocab Words (1-40)

Question 1

Anaphora

Answer 1

Sub-type of parralelism

Question 2

Rhetoric

Answer 2

The art of finding ways to persuade an audience

Question 3

Exigence

Answer 3

That which inspires, stimulates, provokes, or prompts the reader

Question 4

Ethos

Answer 4

Credible and trustworthy

Question 5

Pathos

Answer 5

Emotionally motivate an audience

Question 6

Logos

Answer 6

Facts, stats, clear, rational ideas

Question 7

SOAPS

Answer 7

Subject Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker

Question 8

Propaganda

Answer 8

The spread of ideas and info to further a cause. Rumors, lies, disinformation

Question 9

Diction

Answer 9

Connotation. Choice of words

Question 10

Connotation

Answer 10

Denotation. Affect authors tone

Question 11

Alliteration

Answer 11

Respiration of the same sound

Question 12

Allusion

Answer 12

Brief reference to a person, event, place

Question 13

Imagery

Answer 13

Figurative language that appeals to the 5 senses

Question 14

Verbal irony

Answer 14

The words literally stated the opposite of what was expected

Question 15

Situational irony

Answer 15

Events turn out the opposite of what was expected

Question 16

Dramatic irony

Answer 16

Facts or events are unknown to a character or person but known to others-usually the audience

Question 17

Metaphor

Answer 17

Compares without using like or as

Question 18

Satire

Answer 18

Ridicules the vices and flaws of humans

Question 19

Tone

Answer 19

Similar to mood, author’s attitude toward their material

Question 20

Syntax

Answer 20

Organize words into phrases, clauses, and sentences

Question 21

Antimetabole

Answer 21

Repetition of words in reverse order

Question 22

Antithesis

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Juxtaposition

Answer 23

Two things closely together to emphasize similarities

Question 24

Parallelism

Answer 24

Same or similar grammatical structure

Question 25

Anaphora

Answer 25

Sub-type parallelism

Question 26

Rhetorical question

Answer 26

Figure of speech in form of a question

Question 27

Cumulative sentence

Answer 27

Completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence

Question 28

Hortative sentence

Answer 28

Exhorts, urges, implores, calls to action

Question 29

Periodic sentence

Answer 29

Main clause withheld until the end

Question 30

Personification

Answer 30

Lifelike quality to an inanimate object

Question 31

Claim

Answer 31

Argument’s main idea of position

Question 32

Deduction

Answer 32

General principle, universal truth

Question 33

Induction

Answer 33

Particulars to universal

Question 34

Ad hominem

Answer 34

Diverts attention away from issue, attacks the character

Question 35

Ad populum (bandwagon)

Answer 35

“Everyone’s doing it, so it must be a good thing to do”

Question 36

Appeal to false authority

Answer 36

No expertise, cited as an authority

Question 37

Eithe?or (False Dilemma)

Answer 37

Two extreme options as the only possible choices

Question 38

POST HOC ERGO PROPTER HOC

Answer 38

Something is a cause just because it happened earlier

Question 39

Slippery slope

Answer 39

Adopts one policy, lead to a series of other policies or actions also being taken

Question 40

Hasty generalization

Answer 40

Faulty conclusion bc of inadequate evidence