Lang Rhetoric Test

SOAPSTONE

Rheotric Triangle

Rheotrical Situtation

Classical Argument

(Exordium: Attention getter

Narratio: Background info.

Propositio: Thesis

Divisio: Outline of whats’s to come) -Intro

{Confirmatio: Arguements and evidence in favor of thesis

Refeutatio: Rebuttal of counteragruments } ( Body Para)

Peroratio: Conclusion (Conclusion)

The Syllogism

Major Premise: All humans are mortal

Minor Premise: Socrates was human.

Conclusion:Socrates was mortal.

The Three Appeals

Ethical Appeal- Emotional Appeal, - Logical Appeal

Diction and Tone

Dicition refears to the authors choice of words. Tone is the attitude or feeling that the writer’s words express.

Allusion

is a reference to history, literature, current events, mythology, religion. Whatever it takes to resonate with the reader. To clarify the ponit made. Prior knowledge.

Amplification

writers repeat smt they’ve just said, while adding additonal detail and info. Details the reader wants to convey the importance of an idea. The main purpose is to not inform, but emphasize it.

Analogy

aids communication in the same way that a musical scores enhance musical performance. The analogy is the somewhat more down to earth version of simlie and metaphor.

Anaphora

is a repition of a word or phrase at the beginning of sucessive clauses and sentences.

Anithesis

is a simple way to show a complex thought. Opposites constant in an idea.

Apostrophe

breaks out the writers of the flow od the writing to directly advocates an keal or persuasive object.

Asyndeton

is one of the best, most expressive rhetorical devices.

Chiasmus

is a special form of parralesim that reverses the orginal structure for effect.

Epistrophe

is a close relative to anaphora; it ends in reptition at the end of sucession and clauses.

Epithet

attaching an adjective or adverb phase to make a noun sound more vivid.

Eponym

is simlair to allusion, but it refers to a spefic person in order to link his/her attritrube with someone or smt. Cliche references, overused references.

Exemplum

explaining wth examples. Explaning with your point by illustrating it.

Hyperbation

distrupts the normal order of a sentence to emphasize cetain parts or to make the entire sentence jump of the page.

Lioties

emphasizes its ponit by expressing the opposite of the condition.

Metaphor

: a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in swimming in paperwork)

Metonomy

a figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated (such as "crown" in "lands belonging to the crown")

Parallesim

reassuring consistency

Personification

a divinity or imaginary being representing a thing or abstraction

Polysyndeton

is interesting and insitutional and stylish for fun.

Rhotrical question

question is asked for a purpose other than to obtain information.

Simlie

he meaning of SIMILE is a figure of speech comparing two unlike things and often using like or as (as in cheeks like roses).

Sympolce

Combines the start and end of sucessive clauses and sentences.

Synecdoche

a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole (such as fifty sail for fifty ships), the whole for a part (such as society for high society), the species for the genus (such as cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (such as a creature for a man), or the name of the material for the thing made (such as boards for stage)

Understatement

a statement that represents something as smaller or less intense, or less important than it really is : a statement that understates something

Zeugma

Will let u join two words and the ranks of powerful writers. Is a device in which unexpected items in a sentence r linked together by a shared word; Zeugma can ecompass subjects or direct objects linked together by a verb, pronuns by nouns, adjectival phrases by verbs.

Hyperbole

HYPERBOLE is extravagant exaggeration (such as 'mile-high ice-cream cones'). How to use hyperbole in a sentence.

Hyperbole

Hypophora

is a technique of asking a question then proceeding to answer it can also be used as a way to anticipare or questions or concerns.