Rhetorical terms 51 -60

imagery

the sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or resperent abortions, words that create an image in the reader’s mind.

imperative sentence

sentences used to issue a command

inference/infer

to draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented

invective

an emotionally violent, verbal attack, abustive language

irony/ironic

that contract between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant, or the difference between what appears to be and what is actually true. often used to create poignancy or humor.

jargon

A special language of a profession or group often perceived negatively as being tedious and unintelligible to outsiders.

juxtapostion

placement of things side by side for the purpose of emphasizing comparisons or contrasts

logos

Appeals to audience intellact, providing facts and relative facts and logical support

lyrical

songlike,characterized by emotion, subjectivity and imagination

malapropism

mistakenly subtaintubed for another word that sounds similar