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The process by which a writer tries to persuade a reader to adopt a particular point of view.
What is "argument"?
100
The author or speaker's choice of words.
What is "diction"?
100
Language that is not literal, but which requires some amount of interpretation to be understood as intended.
What is "figure of speech"?
100
The appeal to feeling, or the emotional sense.
What is "pathos"?
100
The arrangement of the structures of language, such as words, phrases, clauses, and sentences.
What is "syntax"?
200
A comparison between two situations, usually one familiar and the other less so, so that some features of the more familiar situation help to explain the less familiar one.
What is "analogy"?
200
The appeal through the writer's character, or the moral sense.
What is "ethos"?
200
The appeal through logic, or the rational sense.
What is "logos"?
200
A rhetorical device in which there are more conjunctions than is normal.
What is "polysyndeton"?
200
The writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience.
What is "tone"?
300
A rhetorical device which employs a balanced pair of opposites.
What is "antithesis"?
300
Language that deals with specific and physical objects.
What is "concrete language"?
300
Language that relies on some kind of discrepancy, usually between what is said and what is meant, between what appears to be true and what actually is true, or between what the reader expects will happen and what does actually happen.
What is "irony"?
300
A question to which the writer expects no direct verbal response, usually because it is asked to make a point rather than to elicit information.
What is "rhetorical question"?
300
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices.
What is "satire"?
400
A rhetorical device in which expected conjunctions are omitted.
What is "asyndeton"?
400
A suggested association a word communicates along with its dictionary definition.
What is "connotation"?
400
Language that is comparative in nature - a direct comparison of one object to another.
What is "metaphor"?
400
The art or skill of using language for some particular effect.
What is "rhetoric"?
400
The order in which items are arranged according to location, usually used in writing physical description.
What is "spatial order"?
500
A rhetorical device in which a word or phrase is repeated at the beginnings of successive phrases or sentences.
What is "anaphora"?
500
A rhetorical device in which a word or words are repeated at the end of successive phrases or sentences.
What is "epistrophe"?
500
A compact, apparent contradiction that, nonetheless, expresses a reasonable idea.
What is "oxymoron"?
500
A rhetorical device in which a word is used in two senses simultaneously, usually one literal and one figurative.
What is "pun"?
500
The process by which component parts are combined into a new entity.
What is "synthesis"?