Rhetoric
What is the rhetorical triangle and what do each of the terms mean?
Ethos pathos, logos and meaning.
What is parenthesis?
a qualifying, explanatory, or appositive word, phrase, clause, or sentence that interrupts a syntactic construction without otherwise affecting it, having often a characteristic intonation and indicated in writing by commas, parentheses, or dashes, as in William Smith—you must know him—is coming tonight.
What is an epithet?
a characterizing word or phrase firmly associated with a person or thing and often used in place of an actual name, title, or the like, as “man's best friend” for “dog.”
What is hyperbole?
Extreme exagerration
What is paradox?
a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. ‘People who can’t trust, can’t be trusted”
What is a metaphor?
A thing regarded as symbolic of something else, especially something abstract.
What is anaphpora?
The repetition of a phrase at the beginning of neighboring clauses or sentences.
What is alliteration
The repetition of the initial consonant sound in words.
what is Anadiplosis?
the use of the same word at the end of one sentence and at the beginning of the next one.
What is personification?
Giving human qualities to something that is not human.
What is synecdoche?
Referring to a part to reference a whole.
What is epistrophe?
The repetition of a word at the end of successive phrases.
What is onomatopoeia?
words that imitate the sound they describe.
Oxymoron is a rhetorical device that uses words, which seem to contradict each other.
What is asyndeton?
The removal of conjunctions like "and" for a better flow.
What is the rhetorical triangle?
Ethos, Pathos, logos
What is apostrophe?
a digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea, as “O Death, where is thy sting?”
What is assonance?
The repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words.
"try to light the fire"
What is an analogy?
An analogy is a comparison between two similar things, typically using figurative language. Metaphors and similes—more on them later—are usually considered to be types of analogies.
What is an allusion?
Allusion is the act of casually referencing something, usually a work of popular culture.
What is colloquialism
a colloquial expression. Informal english. ‘You’re nuts” “don’t chicken out”
What is asyndeton?
the omission of conjunctions, as in “He has provided the poor with jobs, with opportunity, with self-respect.”
What is chiasmus?
a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases, as in “He went to the country, to the town went she.”
What is cacophony?
noun. a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds
What is euphemism
the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt. “He passed away”