Rhetorical Strategy Quiz 1 Flashcards

4443951405	Audience	One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed.	0
4443951408	Chiasmus	the opposite of parallel construction; inverting the second of the two phrases that would otherwise be in parallel form.	1
4443951412	Colloquialism	An informal or conversational use of language.	2
4443951422	Diction	Word choice.	3
4443951424	Ethos	A Greek term referring to the character of a person; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see logos and pathos).	4
4443951425	Euphemism	substitution of an inoffensive word or phrase for another that would be harsh, offensive, or embarrassing. A euphemism makes something sound better than it is but is usually more wordy than the original.	5
4443951427	Figurative language	The use of tropes or figures of speech; going beyond literal meaning to achieve literary effect.	6
4443951437	Juxtaposition	Placement of two things side by side for emphasis.	7
4443951438	Logos	A Greek term that means "word"; an appeal to logic; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see ethos and pathos) .	8
4443951439	Metaphor	A figure of speech or trope through which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else, thus making an implicit comparison.	9
4443951442	Mood	feeling or atmosphere a writer creates for a reader	10
4443951443	Motif	a recurring subject, theme, or idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work	11
4443951448	Paradox	A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true.	12
4443951449	Parallelism	The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns.	13
4443951451	Pathos	A Greek term that refers to suffering but has come to be associated with broader appeals to emotion; one of Aristotle's three rhetorical appeals (see ethos and logos).	14
4443951453	Personification	Assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects.	15
4443951454	Point of view	perspective of the speaker or narrator in a literary work	16
4443951462	Rhetorical modes	Patterns of organization developed to achieve a specific purpose; modes include but are not limited to narration, description, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, definition, exemplification, classification and division, process analysis, and argumentation.	17
4443951464	Rhetorical triangle	A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience (see Aristotelian triangle).	18
4443951469	Simile	A figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things.	19
4443951471	Speaker	A term used for the author, speaker, or the person whose perspective (real or imagined) is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing.	20
4443951475	Subject	In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing.	21
4443951479	Syntax	Sentence structure.	22
4443951481	Tone	The speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience.	23
4443951484	Voice	In grammar, a term for the relationship between a verb and a noun (active or passive voice). In rhetoric, a distinctive quality in the style and tone of writing.	24