Rhetorical Basics
Terms
Rhetorical Devices
Rhetorical Topics & Modes
Reasoning & Fallacies
100
Appeals employed by the speaker to persuade the audience.
What is Ethos, Pathos, and Logos?
100
The word choices made by an author.
What is Diction?
100
A question posed for effect; the answer is often assumed.
What is a Rhetorical Question?
100
An opinion or claim, often supported by evidence, that can be debated.
What is an Argument?
100
A syllogism with the major premise unstated.
What is an Enthymeme?
200
The speaker, audience, and subject are the three elements of this.
What is the Rhetorical Triangle?
200
A text made to point out and make fun of shortcomings, usually political.
What is satire?
200
The repeated use of the same grammatical structures in a sentence or paragraph.
What is Parallelism?
200
A strategy for specifically describing the issue or topic to be examined.
What is Definition?
200
A conclusion made from an inadequate amount of evidence.
What is Hasty Generalization?
300
Every piece of rhetoric is created to achieve this.
What is purpose, aim, or intention?
300
The atmosphere of a text that created certain feelings or emotions in the reader.
What is mood?
300
A figure of speech that compares two-- often unalike-- things to reveal a similarity.
What is Metaphor?
300
A strategy for bringing two or more things together to study them for similarities or differences.
What is Compare/Contrast?
300
A line of reasoning that moves from a general truth a particular truth.
What is Deductive Reasoning?
400
The character or personality the speaker creates in his/her text.
What is Persona?
400
The author’s attitude to his or her subject and/or audience.
What is Tone?
400
A direct or indirect reference to a commonly known event, person, book, etc.
What is Allusion?
400
A strategy for examining an event and the results it brings about.
What is Cause/Effect?
400
A line of reasoning that moves from a set of specific examples to a general statement.
What is Inductive Reasoning?
500
Different categories of text that come with specific forms, conventions, and expectations.
What is Genre?
500
The grouping of words, including sentence structure, chosen by an author.
What is Syntax?
500
The non-literal, associative, implied or suggested meaning of a word.
What is Connotation?
500
A strategy for listing details of events or happenings, usually in chronological order.
What is Narration?
500
An analogy between two things in which the overlooked differences are more important than the similarities between them.
What is False Comparison?
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