Rhetoric
The rhetorical triangle consists of speaker, subject and this.
What is audience?
This is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences.
What is anaphora?
"Your policy may seem like it will help our citizens, but the fact that you cheated on your wife shows us you are not fit to lead our town" is an example of this.
What is ad hominem?
This type of sentence is used for emphasis and does not mention the main clause until the very end.
What is a periodic sentence?
This is the writer's attitude toward their reader and their subject.
What is tone?
A speaker's credibility is known as this.
What is ethos?
This is a brief statement that expresses a wise observation on life.
What is an aphorism?
An assertion or proposition that states the argument's main idea is also known as this.
What is a claim?
This is the technique for arranging words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures by placing them side by side and making them similar in form.
What is parallelism or parallel structure?
Expressed with restraint or lack of emphasis.
What is understatement?
An argument that is accommodating rather than antagonizing is known as this.
What is Rogerian argument?
Referring to King Henry as the "crown" is utilizing this particular device.
What is metonymy?
This fallacy occurs when a speaker chooses a deliberately poor or oversimplified example in order to refute an opponent's viewpoint.
What is the straw man fallacy?
This type of sentence consists of one dependent clause and one independent clause.
The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.
What is an antecedent?
A lecture that is intended to teach is known as this.
What is didactic?
A device where conjunctions are omitted in a series of words, phrases or clauses is called this.
What is asyndeton?
This type of argument is often structured as a syllogism.
What is deduction?
A figure of speech in which a contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other, such as “hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins”.
What is antithesis?
An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
What is connotation?
When a writer or speaker engages in this rhetorical mode, their purpose is to explain and inform their readers or listeners about a topic.
What is exposition?
This device is an inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases, such as "working hard, or hardly working?"
What is chiasmus?
In the Toulmin Model, this is the term that expresses an assumption necessarily shared by the speaker and the audience.
This is a stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect.
What is polysyndeton?
This voice is when the subject of the sentence is acted on by the verb. For example, in “The ball was thrown by the pitcher."
What is passive voice?