Everyday Use Rhetorical Vocabulary Part 1 A

Question-and-answer flashcards covering key rhetorical terms from the notes.

What is Scheme?

An artful variation from typical formation and arrangement of words or sentences.

What is a Canon in rhetoric?

One of the traditional elements of rhetorical composition: invention, arrangement, style, memory, or delivery.

What is a Dramatic Monologue?

A type of poem, popular primarily in the 19th century, in which the speaker delivers a monologue to an assumed group of listeners.

What is a Rhetorical Question?

A question posed by a writer not to seek an answer but to affirm or deny a point simply by asking a question about it.

What is the Aim in writing?

The goal the writer hopes to achieve with the text (intention or purpose), such as to inform, clarify, convince, or persuade.

What is a Double Entendre?

The double or multiple meanings of a group of words that the writer has purposely left ambiguous.

What is Jargon?

The specialized vocabulary of a particular group.

What is Voice in rhetoric?

The textual features, such as diction and sentence structure, that convey a writer's persona.

What is Context?

The convergence of time, place, audience, and motivating factors surrounding a piece.

What is Anadiplosis?

The repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause.

What is Ethos?

The appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the writer.

What is Declaiming?

Heightening a message by emphasizing pitch, volume, and pause, and by using gestures and movements.

What is Parallelism?

A set of similarly structured words, phrases, or clauses that appears in a sentence or paragraph.

What are Basic Topics?

One of Aristotle's four perspectives used to generate material about any subject matter, including possible/impossible, past fact, and future fact.

What is Allegory?

An extended metaphor.

What is Inductive Reasoning?

Reasoning that begins with specific instances or examples and then shows how they constitute a general principle.

What is Genre?

A piece of writing classified by type.

What is a Heuristic?

A systematic strategy or method for solving problems.

What is Rhetoric?

The art of analyzing language choices to make a text meaningful, purposeful, and effective.

What is Evidence?

The facts, statistics, anecdotes, and examples that support a claim, generalization, or conclusion.

What is a Syllogism?

Logical reasoning from inarguable premises.

What is a Trope?

An artful variation from expected modes of expression of thoughts and ideas.

What is Versimilitude?

The quality of a text that reflects the truth of actual experience.

What is Anglo-Saxon Diction?

Word choice characterized by simple, often one- or two-syllable nouns, adjectives, and adverbs.

What is Alliteration?

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or in the middle of two or more adjacent words.