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

Jargon

What are words or terms related to a specific field or vocation?

100
Invective
What is a verbally abusive attack called?
100

Imperative

What is a sentence that gives a command?

200

Sytnax

What is sentence structure?

200

Interrogative

What is a type of sentence that asks a question?

200
Hyperbole
What is an extreme exaggeration? Hint: The opposite of understatement.
200

Chiasmus

What is a type of sentence that uses ab,ba structure?

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

Logos

What appeal deals with the process of reasoning?

300
Oxymoron
An image of contradictory term
400

Form

What is context, audience, purpose, and speaker?

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

Asyndeton

What is the absence of conjunctions?
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

Structure

What is the organization of content within a text?

500
Euphemism
What is a more acceptable and usually more pleasant way of saying something?
500

Synecdoche

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that refers to a part of something is substituted to stand in for the whole, or vice versa.

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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