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Kenneth Burke's Pentad
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singular pronouns
What is I, me, my mine
100
Alliteartion
What is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or in the middle of two or more adjacent words
100
personification
What is inanimate objects are given human characteristics
100
Minor Premise
What is the middle sentence in a syllogism
100
Act
What is what happened?
200
Diction
What is pronunciation
200
assonance
What is repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two or more adjacent words
200
onomatopoeia
What is sounds of the words used are related to their meaning
200
Major premise
What is the first sentence in a syllogism
200
scene
What is When and Where it happened?
300
Romance Languages
What is French, Spanish, and Italian
300
Climax
What is repetition of words, phrases, or clauses in order of increasing number or importance
300
periphrasis
What is a descriptive word or phrase is used to refer to a proper name
300
conclusion
What is the last sentence in a syllogism
300
Agent
What is who did it?
400
Trope
What is an artful variation from the typical or expected way a word or idea is expressed
400
anadiplosis
What is repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause
400
metonymy
What is an entity is referred to by one of its attributes
400
Rhetorical question
What is the questions asked in a rhetorical analysis
400
Agency
What is How was it done?
500
Antithesis
What is where parallelism is used to juxtapose words, phrases or clauses that contrast
500
epistrophe
What is repetition of the same group of words at the ned of successive clauses
500
Antimere
What is one part of a speech, usually a verb, substitutes for another, usually a noun
500
Declaiming
What is when a speaker heightens a message by carefully emphasizing pitch, volume, and pause when speaking
500
Purpose
What is why was it done?