Rhetorical Device Terms

A term used to describe writing that is so scholarly and distant that it is like a lecture is

Word or phrase that links one idea to the next, carrying the reader one thought to another is

A technique where the writer says less than is intended is...

The relationship between the subject and verb (active or passive)

Immediaterevelation to the audience of the setting and background or explanation is called

The repetition of one or two words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses... is

Literalmeanings of words are called

Literary work types are sorted into 

An extended narrative in which characters, events, and settings represent abstract qualities is

A short tale that teaches a moral is a 

Calling out to an imaginary or dead person, or to a place,thing, or personified abstraction is 

Ashort, often witty statement of a principle or a truth about life is a

A figure of speech composed of contradictory words or phrases such as "wise fool" is

____________ is theprimary emotional attitude of a work.

A statement that seems to contradict itself but that turns out to have rational meaning is