Rhetoric 1
This is the sequential repetition of a similar initial sound, usually applied to consonants, usually in closely proximate stressed syllables.
What is an alliteration?
This rhetorical strategy is used when a writer or speaker asks a question and immediately provides the answer. Example: Why is it important to eat healthy foods? It is important because you can heal illness and build your immune system.
What is hyporphora?
This is the contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant.
What is irony?
the repetition of a word or words at the start of phrases, clauses, or sentences.
Example: I came, I saw, I conquered.
What is anaphora?
This is the attitude the writer takes toward a subject and theme.
What is tone?
Writing which involves using similar grammatical structures to create rhythm and balance
What is parallelism?
This is a literary work that holds up human failings to ridicule and censure.
What is a satire?
This is a term identifying the diction of the common, ordinary folks, especially in a specific region or area.
What is colloquial?
A literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference.
What is allusion?
The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balances or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas. For example, "To err is human, to sin is divine."
What is antithesis?
A rhetorical strategy in which the speaker changes the order of the words or phrases in a sentence to invoke a powerful emotion. Example: "Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."
What is chiasmus?
This ends where it begins or begins at the end. This structure hooks the reader and makes us curious about how the characters ended up where they are. It creates a sense of doom and inevitability.
What is cyclical structure?
The repetition of two or more consonants with a change in the intervening vowels, such as pitter-patter, splish-splash.
What is consonance?
This is a syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series, usually producing more rapid prose.
What is asyndeton?
A rhetorical device that uses a pleasant phrase or saying to downplay a less pleasant situation. Example: "Let go" can be for "fired from a job."
What is euphemism?
This device uses the same word at the end of a sentence and the beginning of the next sentence.
What is anadiplosis?
This is the appeal to logic and reason.
What is logos?
These are used to create a mood, impression or atmosphere. Examples "should, could and ought".
What is modal verbs?
A short story that relates to the subject in a different context. These often contain real people or actions. They are used to create an emotion in their reader or listener.
What is anecdote?
describes the most suitable time and place for making an argument and the most opportune ways of expressing it. Example: “Today’s generation of students in their 20s is firmly tuned in to a digital world.”
What is a Kairos?
The use of instructional words to create a call to action or make your audience think. An example is saying “you must act now”.
What is Imperative?
This technique builds on a word, phrase or sentence, evoking a sense of urgency and intensity in the reader or listener. In the example, the repetitive use of 'perfect' highlights the importance of finding the right home and place to live.
What is amplification?
The repetition of a phrase at the end of successive sentences. For example: "If women are healthy and educated, their families will flourish. If women are free from violence, their families will flourish. If women have a chance to work... their familes will flourish." (Hillary CLinton)
What is epistrophe?