Word & Stories
Added, hidden connections that load a word with extra meaning
What are Connotations?
Repeated consonant sounds
What is Alliteration?
Direct poetic comparison between unlike items
What is a Metaphor?
An emotional appeal
What is Pathos?
Words that create a picture in the mind
What is Imagery?
Repeated vowel sounds
What is Assonance?
Poetic comparison that uses the word "like" or "as."
What is a Simile?
An appeal that connects to a respected or trustworthy person
What is Ethos?
A short story meant to prove a point
What is an anecdote?
Repeated similar words or phrases that provide emphasis
What is parallel structure?
Uses one item to model another for greater understanding
What is an Analogy?
An appeal to rational thinking
What is logos?
What is an Allusion?
Giving human qualities to something non-human
What is Personification?
What is Juxtaposition?
The ideas of Logos, Ethos and Pathos
What are the Modes of Rhetoric?
The ingredients of the Writing Situation
What are Message, Audience and Purpose?
Combining two opposing concepts that would seem to be impossible to provide meaning
What is a Paradox?
Exaggeration to prove a point
What is hyperbole?
The Rhetorical Square's fourth side
What is Persona?