Catechism
The art of expressing thoughts, ideas, and emotions through words arranged meaningfully.
What is writing?
Deliberate exaggeration for the sake of emphasizing an idea or of appealing to the emotions of an audience.
What is hyperbole?
"A verbis ad verbera."
"From ___ to ___."
-Latin proverb
words; blows
"Originality is nothing but ___ imitation."
-Voltaire
judicious
A composition bringing the subject clearly before the eyes. A picture made of words.
What is the exercise of description?
Invention, Arrangement, Style, Memory, & Delivery
What are the five canons of rhetoric?
The repetition of the initial letter or sound in two or more words close together.
What is alliteration?
"Peace cannot be kept by ___; it can only be achieved by ___."
-Albert Einstein
force; understanding
-Aristotle
appearance; significance
A rhetorical exercise in which the writer imitates the character of a person chosen to be portrayed.
What is the exercise of impersonation?
The rhetorical appeal to the audience's emotions.
What is pathos?
A metaphor, simile, or other phrase that is used so often that it no longer rouses the reader's interest or emotions.
What is a cliché?
"A short story must have a single ____ and every ___ must build towards it."
-Edgar Allan Poe
mood; sentence
There are three ___ for everybody that will employ them--the ___, intelligent companions, and ___.
-Henry Ward Beecher
schoolmasters; senses; books
An essay that includes outer & inner aspects of a person.
What is a descriptive essay of a person?
Richness and flexibility in language.
What is copiousness?
The repetition of a word or words at the beginning of each of a series of clauses or sentences.
What is anaphora?
"Friendships born on the field of ___ strife are the real ___ of competition. ___ become corroded, ___ never fade."
-Jesse Owens
athletic; gold; Awards; friends
"What matters in life is not what ___ to you but what you ___ and how you ___ it."
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
happens; remember; remember
A figure of reasoning in which the writer lists several choices or options and then discards all but the best choice. It can be used in the Logos paragraph of an impersonation essay.
What is expeditio?
The rhetorical appeal to the audience's sense of morality and credibility.
What is ethos?
The repetition of a word or words at the end of each of a series of clauses or sentences.
What is epistrophe?
There is a pleasure in the pathless ___,
There is a rapture on the lonely ___,
There is society where none ___,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not ___ the less, but ___ more.
-Lord Byron
woods; shore; intrudes; Man; Nature
"Never give in, never, never, never, never--in nothing, ___ or ___, ___ or ___--never give in except to convictions of ___ and good ___. Never yield to ___; never yield to the apparently overwhelming ___ of the ___."
-Winston Churchill
great; small; large; petty; honor; sense; force; might; enemy
A figure of reasoning in which the writer asks and then immediately answers a question. It can be used in the Logos paragraph of an impersonation essay.
What is anthypophora?