Literary Terms... aka Rhetorical Strategies

Question 1

An indirect, kinder, or less harsh or hurtful way of expressing unpleasant information.

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Euphemism

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Characterized statement by exaggerated language, to make a point or draw attention- irony

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Hyperbole

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Writion in praise of a dead person, most often inscribed upon a headstone.

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Epitaph

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Opening section of a narrative structure in which characters or setting are revealed.

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Exposition

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Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usally in successive or proximate words.

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Assonance

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Five years have passed; Five summers, with the length of Five long winters!

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Anaphora

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The word, phrase, or clasue referred to by a pronoun.

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Antecedent

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Doctors all over the world recommend this type of treatment.

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Ethos

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A sermon, contemporary uses any serious talk, speech, or lecture is moral or spiritual life.

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Homily

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A person or prose that leaments, or mediates upon the death of a person.

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Elegy

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Comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of liturature, metaphor.

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Conceit

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Language with levels of meaning through figures of speech like personifications or metaphors

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Figurative Language

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Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure? (Shakesphere)

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Asyndeton

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The language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, or group.

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Dialect

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Setting foot on the moon may be a small step for a man but a giant step for mankind.

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Antithesis

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The implied, suggest, or underlying meaning of a word or phrase- ideas, emotions, or attitudes.

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Connotation

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Concise satement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief.

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Aphorism

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Reasoning or argument in which general statements/conclusions are drawn; specific to general

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Inductive Reasoning

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This place is like a Garden of Eden.

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Allusion

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A president of a bankuses a baseball to explain his new policies.

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Analogy

Question 21

The fresh and juicy orange is very cold and sweet.

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Imagery

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Our teacher is in a family way.

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Euphemism

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Method of argument which specific statements or conclusions drawn: from general to the specific

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Deductive Reasoning

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You can take the boy out of the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the boy!

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Chiasmus

Question 25

Short narrative detailing particulars, intersting episode or event, term used most frequently.

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Anecdote

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Syntactical structure in which conjuctions are omitted in a series, producing more rapid prose.

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Asyndeton

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A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb.

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Clause

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Regular repetition of the same words or phrases at the beginning of successive claues.

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Anaphora

Question 29

Money is the root of all evils: poverty is the fruit of all goodness.

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<p>Epistrophe</p>

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Similarity or comparison between two differnt things of the relationship between them.

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Analogy

Question 31

Emotional mood created entirety of literary work, elements of the weather can create a mood.

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Atmosphere

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Writing or speech that has a purpose or lesson; often with a dry, pompous presentation.

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Dialect

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That which has been accepted as authentic.

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Cannon

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An earlier event is inserted into the normal chronology of the narration.

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Flashback

Question 35

The specific word choice an author uses to persuade or convey tone, purpose or effect.

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Diction

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A literary, historical, religious, or mythological refenence in a literary work.

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Allusion

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Assessment or analysis of something, like a passive of writing, limitation, standard of genre.

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Critique

Question 38

Figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person.

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Apostrophe

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Detail or evocation in a feeling or to call an idea- any or all of the five senses

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Imagery

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A type or class of literature, such as epic, narrative, poetry, biography, history...

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Genre

Question 41

The tone of voice or the mood of a piece of writing.

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Attitude

Question 42

Metaphor developed at great length or frequently in a work; a piece of writing

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Inductive Reasoning

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

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Anadiplosis

Question 44

Describing somene as "Romeo" makes reference to the famous youthful lover in Romeo and Juliet.

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Allusion

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Rhetorical arguments which the speaker claims to an authority or expert in a field or attempts.

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Appeals to...

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The repetition of two or more consonants with a change in intervening vowels.

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Consonance

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She te seven sandwiches on a sunny Sunday last year.

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Alliteration

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This term describes traditions for each genre.

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Generic Conventions

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Figure of speech, order of terms in first half of a parrel clause is reversed in the second.

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Chiasmus

Question 50

Narrative in the characters, behavior, the setting demonstrates multiple levels of meaning.

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Allegory

Question 51

In rhetoric, a text to credibility or character of the speaker, writer, or narrator.

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Ethos

Question 52

Argumentative ploy where the arguer sidesteps conflict, evades or ignores the real question.

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Begging the Question

Question 53

The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, parallel words, phrases, grammatical structures, ideas.

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Antithesis

Question 54

Sequential repetition of a similar initial sound, usually applied to consonants.

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Alliteration

Question 55

In rhetoric, the repetition of a phrase at the end of sucessive sentences.

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Epistrophe

Question 56

A conclusion or proposition arrived at by considering facts or observations- clues or learning

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Inference

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The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, a word, pharse, sentence, passage.

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Ambiguity

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Term identifying the diction of common, ordinary folks, especially in specificregion or area.

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Colloquial

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The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color

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Denotation

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A speech or written passage in praise of a person; an oration in honor of a deceased person.

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Eulogy

Literary Terms... aka Rhetorical Strategies

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Literary Terms... aka Rhetorical Strategies

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