Rhetoric
Logos, pathos, and ethos
What are the three rhetorical appeals?
the parts of a piece of writing,
speech, etc, that precede and follow a
word or passage and contribute to its
full meaning
What is context?
the comparison of two unlike things
using the words “like,” “as,” or “than."
What is simile?
Names a person, place, or thing
What is a noun?
4 Line stanza
What is a quatrain?
the skill to observe in any given
case the available means
of persuasion
What is rhetoric?
The central unifying idea
What is the theme?
a direct comparison without using the
comparative words "like" or "as"
What is metaphor?
Expresses action
What is a verb?
Rhyme that occurs in the middle rather than the end
What is internal rhyme?
Speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, and subject
What is SOAPS?
a category of artistic, musical, or
literary composition characterized by
a particular style, form, or content
What is genre?
attributing human characteristics to
nonhuman things.
What is personification?
replaces a noun, pronoun or group of nouns/pronouns
Rhyme that occurs at the end of a line
End rhyme
Speaker, author, subject
What is the rhetorical triangle?
what words in what arrangement are
most likely to create the desired
effect in the audience?
What is rhetorical style?
a description using two opposite ideas
to create an effective description.
What is oxymoron?
Noun that names an idea, quality or characteristic
What is an abstract noun?
the repetition of the same consonant
sound at the start of one or more words
near one another.
What is alliteration?
the moment or event that motivates
someone to write or to speak about a
specific issue, problem, or situation
What is exigence?
The sentence structure, vocabulary,
imagery, and figurative language of a
text that contributes to its meaning,
purpose, and effect
Style
Used to compare two unlike ideas to increase understanding of one, describe ideas sometimes difficult to understand, show a deeper emotion or connection, influence the audience, help make connections, make descriptions easier to visualize, elicit an emotion
What is figurative language?
a pronoun that reflects back onto another noun or pronoun (myself, yourself, ourselves)
What is a reflexive pronoun?
the repetition of the same consonant
sound in the middle or at the end of a series of words
What is assonance?