Rhetorical Terms 1
The person who creates a text. This might be a politician who delivers a speech, a commentator who writes an article, an artist who draws a political cartoon.
What is Speaker?
A brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art.
What is Allusion?
The time and place a speech is given or a piece is written.
What is Occasion?
Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.
What is Parallelism?
An example of a simile.
What is... (answers may vary)
Ex: She is as innocent as an angel
Metaphor ex: She is an angel
A diagram that illustrates the interrelationship among the speaker, audience, and subject in determining a text.
What is Rhetorical Triangle?
Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words.
What is Archaic Diction?
The face or character that a speaker shows to his or her audience.
What is Persona?
Peaceful revolution is an example.
What is Oxymoron?
An example of an allusion.
What is...(answers may vary)
ex: Chocolate is his Kryptonite - Kryptonite referencing Superman
A denial of the validity of an opposing argument.
What is Refutation?
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences.
What is Juxtaposition?
An aggressive argument that tries to establish the superiority of one opinion over all the others.
What is Polemic?
An example of anaphora.
What is....(answers may vary)
ex. not as a call to bear arms, not as a call to battle
The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant.
What is Metonymy?
ex: suit for business executive
Greek for "suffering" or "experience". Speakers emotionally motivate their audience.
What is Pathos?
The sentence that exhorts urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action.
What is a Hortative Sentence?
An example of connotation.
What is...(answers may vary)
ex: The cat is plump. The cat is fat. The cat is obese. (all connotations for overweight).
An example of antimetabole.
What is...(answers may vary)
ex: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country (repetition of words in reverse order)
Figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa.
What is Synecdoche?
ex: Cleveland won by six runs (meaning “Cleveland's baseball team”
Lou Gehrig is a regular guy and a good sport who shares the audience's love of baseball and family. And like them, he has known good luck and bad breaks is an eample.
What is Ethos?
Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings.
What is Zeugma?
An acknowledgement that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable.
What is Concession?
We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty is an example.
What is Asyndeton?
Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words.
An example of analogy.
What is...(answers may vary) Life is like a box of chocolates—you never know what you're gonna get.
Ex: saying something is like something else to make some sort of explanatory point.