Rhetorical Terms
Rhetorical Terms
Rhetorical Terms
Rhetorical Terms
Rhetorical Terms
100
This is the author's attitude toward his subject often referred to in literature.
What is Tone?
100
The interpretive level of a word based on its associated images rather than its literal meaning.
What is Connotation?
100
What is a sustained comparison, often referred to as a conceit. This type of literary element is developed throughout a piece of writing.
What is an Extended Metaphor?
100
Although not a term, this is an acronym that is useful for creating a strategic, simple, yet thorough rhetorical analysis for a passage of literature.
What is SOAPStone?
100
Motif
What is the repetition or variations of an image or idea in a work used to develop theme or characters called?
200
This is a work that functions on a symbolic level called.
What is 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
What is a word that sounds like the sound they represent?
300
Allusion
What is a reference to another literary work called?
300
This rhetorical strategy helps author's create tone, attitude, and style, as well as meaning.
What is Diction?
300
This is the total effect of related sensory images in a work of literature
What is Imagery?
300
Logic
What appeal deals with the process of reasoning?
300
Oxymoron
What is an image of contradictory term?
400
This is the presentation of two contrasting images called. Hint: The ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs.
What is antithesis?
400
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.
What is Didactic?
400
This is the process that moves from a given series of specifics to generalizations called?
What is Induction?
400
Metaphor
What is a direct comparison between dissimlar things called?
400
The aspects of a literary work that elicit pity from the audience.
What is Pathos?
500
An example of this device is found in the phrase: "You can take me out of the city, but you can't take the city out of me."
What is antimetabole?
500
Euphemism
What is a more acceptable and usually more pleasant way of saying something?
500
This is a conclusion one can draw from the presented details called?
What is Inference?
500
Paradox
What is a figure of speech in which irony is used but the statement can almost be considered as true?
500
Personification
What is the assigning of human qualities to inanimate objects or concepts?
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