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Rhetorical Devices
Rhetorical Devices II
Voice
Fallacies
Mix it Up
100
a more acceptabl way of saying something
What is euphemism?
100
the presentation of two contrasting images; ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause or paragraph
What is antithesis?
100
author's attitude toward his subject
What is tone?
100
stating a conclusion that doesn't follow from one or both premises
What is non sequitur?
100
a 3-step form of deductive reasoning
What is syllogism?
200
harsh and discordant sounds
What is cacophony?
200
the re-creation of regional spoeken language
What is dialect?
200
the "SOUND" of a writer's style
What is voice?
200
supplying neat and easy explanations for large and complicated phenomena
What is oversimplification?
200
avoiding TO BE verbs (be,am, is, are, was, were, been) in your writing; putting the focus on the Subject as the actor
What is active voice?
300
the use of slang in writing often to create local color and to provide an informal tone
What is colloquial?
300
those elements that help create coherence in a written piece
What is connective tissue?
300
grammatical structure of prose and poetry
What is syntax?
300
leaping to a generalization from inadequate or faulty evidence
What is hasty generalization?
300
a writer's readers
What is audience?
400
repetition of initial consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
400
a sustained comparison, often referred to as a conceit
What is extended metaphor?
400
word choice
What is diction?
400
attacking a person's views by attacking his or her character
What is ad hominem?
400
logos, ethos, pathos
What is rhetorical appeals in an argument?
500
the word, phrase, or cluase to which a pronoun refers
What is antecedent?
500
a figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea
What is metonymy?
500
the body of devices that enable the writer to operate on levels other than the literal one
What is figurative language?
500
taking for granted from the start what you set out to demonstrate
What is begging the question?
500
a habit of good writers; keeping ideas of equal importance in similar grammatical form
What is parallelism?