Lit Term Quiz: Rhetoric, Drama, Sound

logos

persuasion that uses facts, statistics, evidence, and clear arguments

pathos

persuasion by evoking a specific emotion

ethos

persuasion that builds up the credibility of the speaker or author

dialogue

conversation between two or more people

aside

something meant to be heard by just the audience and not any other characters

soliloquy

the act of speaking one's thought aloud alone regardless of hearers

monologue

a long speech by ONE character

alliteration

repetition of the same letter sound at the beginning of closely connected words

assonance

repetition of the same vowel in non-rhyming syllables of closely connected words

onomatapeia

the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

antithesis

a person or thing that is the direct opposite of something else

parallelism

the state of being parallel or of corresponding in some way

anaphora

the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses