zanfini first rhetoical terms quiz
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dtobia103 on September 11, 2011
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APUSH Pitts and AP Lang. and Comp Zanfini
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Abstract Diction | words that describe concepts rather than concrete images |
| Ad Hominem Fallacy | a fallacy of logic in which a person's character or motive is attacked instead of their argument |
| Ad Populum Fallacy | popular appeal, or appeal to the majority |
| Allegory | an extended narrative in prose or verse in which characters, events, and settings represent abstract qualities in which the author intends a second meaning to be read beneath the surface of the story |
| Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close to one another |
| Allusion | a brief or indirect reference to a person, place, passage, or event in a work of literature that is well known |
| Ambiguity | the expression of an idea in such a way that more than one meaning is suggested |
| Anadiplosis | the repetition of the last word of one clause in the beginning of the next |
| Analogy | a comparison between two things in which the more complex is explained in terms of more simple |
| Anaphora | the repetition of introductory words or phrases for effect |
| Anastrophe | departure from normal word order for the sake of emphasis. normal syntax is violated |
| Anecdote | a short entertaining account of something happening, frequently personal or biographical used to bring humor or to illustrate a particular characteristic or trait |
| Antithesis | opposition or contrast emphasized by parallel structure |
| Antecednet | the word for which a pronoun stands |
| Aphorism | a brief saying embodying a moral |
| Apostrophe | a strategy in which an absent person, inanimate object, or abstract being is addressed directly |
| Appeal to authority/ expert testimony | citation of information from people recognized for their special knowledge of a subject for the purpose of strengthening an argument |
| Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds between different consonants |
| Asyndeton | commas used (with no conjunction) to separate a series of words |
| Bandwagon | either saying that supporting a specific cause/stance would result in the rejection of peeers or using the popular support of a cause/stance to persuade other to support it as well |
| Begging the Question | fallacy of logical argument that assumes the reader will automatically accept in assertion without proper support |
| Cause and Effect | examination of the causes and/or effects of a situation or phenomenon |
| Chiasmus | a syntactical structure by which the order of the terms in the first of two parallel clauses is reversed in the second |
| Circular Logic/Thinking/Reasoning | a fallacy which involves assrtions endlessly without real support |
| Colloquial Diction | words or phrases used in everyday conversation and informal writing which is usually inappropriate in formal writning |
| Concrete Diction | words that describe specific, observable things, people, or things rather than ideas or qualities |
| Connotation | implied or suggested meaning of a word because of its association with the reader's mind |
| Consonance | repetiton of identitical consonant sounds within two or more words close in proximity |
| Convoluted sentences | long, complicated sentences that are often hard to follow because they are wordy and too many ideas are rolled together |
| Denotation | the literal or obvious meaning of a word |
| Ellipsis | any omitted part of speech that is easily understood in context |
| Epanalepsis | the repetition of the first word of one clause at the of the clause |
| Epigram | a brief, clever, and usually memorable statement |
| Epistrophe | the repetition of the same word or groups of words at the ends of phrases, clauses, or sentences |
| Ethos | appealing to ethics |
| Euphemism | the use of a word or phrase that is less direct, but that is also less distatesteful or offensive than another |
| False Casualitiy | a fallacy of concluding that an event is cause by another event simply because it follow sit |
| False Dilemma | a fallacy of logical argument which is committed when too few of the available alternatives are considered, and all but one are deemed impossible |
| Figurative Language | how authors use literal meanings to suggest nonliteral meanings |
| Foreshadowing | the use of a hint or clue to suggest a larger event that occurs later in the work |
| Freight-Train Sentences | a sentence consiting of three or more very short independent clauses joined by conjuctions |
| Hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration in order to create humor or emphasis |
| Idioms | an expression i n the usage of a language that has a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined literal meanings of the seperate elements |
| Interrogative sentences | type of sentence structure used chiefly for asking questions |
| Irony | ... |
| Juxtaposition | type of zeugma - putting together two contrasting elments that are so unlike that the effect is suprising, witty, or even startling |
| Maxim | a self-evident or universally recognized truth |
| Lgos | appealing to reason in a measured, logical way |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another by being spoken of as thought it were that thing |
| Metonymny | Figure of speech that replaces the name of an object, person, or idea with something with which its is associated |
| No sequitur | Statement that does not follow logically form what it preceded |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of words that sound like what they mean |
| Overgeneralization | a fallacy in which the author draw too general of a conclusion from the presented information or arguments |
| Oversimplification | a fallacy in which the author obscure s or denies the complexity of the issues in an argument |
| Oxymoron | figure of speech in which contadictory terms or ideas are combined |
| Pacing | where a passage speeds up or slows down |
| Parable | a short story form which a lesson may be drawn |
| Paradox | a statement which seems self contradictory, but which may be true in fact |
| Parallelism | any structure which brings together parallel elements to show the ideas in parts of sentences are of equal importance |
| Parody | in contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it |
| Pathos | Appealing to the emotions |
| Pedantic | A term used to describe writing that borders on lecturing |
| Periodic Sentence Structure | simple sentence with details added to the beginning or interpreting the simple sentence |
| Personification | the attribution of human qualities to a nonhuman or inanimate object |
| Piling | listing in quick succession |
| polysyndenton | a sentence which uses and or another conjunction to seperat the items in series |
| Predicate | the verb and any of its objects or complements in a clause |
| Prepositional Phrase | consists of a preposition and its complement |
| Pun | a play upon words based on the multiple meanings of words |
| Red Herring | when an author raises an irrelevant issue to draw attention away from the real issue |
| Reductio Ad Absurdrum | "to reduce to the absurd" technique useful for creating a comic effect ans is also an argumentative technique |
| Rhetorical Question | question asked for rhetorical effect or to emphasize a point, no answer being expected |
| Sarcasm | harsh, caustic personal remarks to or about someone; less subtle than irony |
| Satire | use of ridicule, sarcasm, irony, etc. to expose vices, abuses, etc. |
| Simile | Figure of speech that uses like or as, or as if to make a direct comparison between two essentially different objects, actions, or qualities. |
| Slippery Slope | a fallacy in which a person asserts that some event must inevitably follow from another without any argument for the inevitably of the event in question |
| Snob Appeal | Qualities that seem to substantiate social or intellectual pretensions |
| Spatial Ordering | an organizational strategy where information is organized using spatial cues such as top to bottom, etc. |
| Stereotype | character who represents a trait that is usually attributed to a particular social or racial group and who lacks individuality |
| Strawman | when an author argues against a claim that nobody actually holds or is universally considered weak. diverts attention from real issues |
| Stream of Consciousness | like a first person narrator, but placing the reader inside the characters head |
| Syllepsis | when a single word that governs or modifies two others must be understood differently with respect to each of those words |
| syllogism | form reasoning in which two premises are made and a conclusion is drawn from them |
| Synecdoche | figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent a whole (wheels=car) |
| Synesthesia | figure of speech in which there is a blending of different senses in describing something |
| Syntax | grammatical structure of a sentence, the arrangement of words in a sentence |
| Theme | the central idea or message of a literary wotk |
| Thesis | the main idea of a text |
| Tone | author's implied attitude towards its subject |
| Transition | word or phrase that links one idea to the next and carries the reader from sentence to sentence and paragraph to paragraph |
| Tricolon | sentence consisting of three equal parts of importance and length |
| Understatement/Litotes | statement that says less than what it means |
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