Rhetorical Terms
Rhetorical Terms
Rhetorical Terms
Rhetorical Terms
Rhetorical Terms
100
What is the author's attitude toward his subject often referred to in literature?
Tone
100
Connotation
The interpretive level of a word based on its associated images rather than its literal meaning.
100

Extended Metaphor

What is a sustained comparison, often referred to as a conceit. This type of literary element is developed throughout a piece of writing.

100
Invective
What is a verbally abusive attack called?
100
Motif
What is the repetition or variations of an image or ida in a work used to develop theme or characters called?
200

What is a work that funcions on a symbolic level called?

Allegory

200
Deduction
What is the process of moving from a general rule to a specific exampe called?
200
Hyperbole
What is an extreme exaggeration? Hint: The opposite of understatement.
200
Irony
What is an unexpected twist or contrast between what happens and what was intended or expected to happen?
200
Onomatopoiea
A word that sounds like the sound they represent.
300
Allusion
What is a reference to another literary work called?
300
Diction
This rhetorical strategy helps author's create tone, attitude, and style, as well as meaning.
300
Imagery
What is the total effect of related sensory images in a work of literature?
300
Logic
What appeal deals with the process of reasoning?
300
Oxymoron
An image of contradictory term
400
Antithesis
What is the presentation of two contrasting images called? Hint: The ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs.
400
Didactic
A piece of writing whose purpose is to instruct or to teach. Hint: A ______________ work is usually formal and focuses on moral or ethical concerns.
400
Induction
What is the process that moves from a given series of spectifics to generalizations called?
400
Metaphor
What is a direct comparison between dissimlar things called?
400
Pathos
The aspects of a literary work that elicit pity from the audience?
500
Attitude
What is the relationship an author has toward his or her subject, and/or his or her audience called?
500
Euphemism
What is a more acceptable and usually more pleasant way of saying something?
500
Inference
What is a conclusion one can draw from the presented details called?
500
Metonymy
What is a figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea called?
500
Personification
The assigning of human qualities to inanimate objects or concepts.
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