Rhetoric midterm
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| Metaphor | compares two different things by speaking of one in terms of the other
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| Simile | comparison between two different things that resemble each other in at least one way
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| Metonymy | the thing chosen for the metaphorical image is closely associated with (but not an actual part of) the subject with which it is to be compared
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| Personification | animal or inanimate object as having human attributes
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| Hyperbole | the counterpart of understatement, deliberately exaggerates conditions for emphasis or effect
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| Synecdoche | type of metaphor in which the part stands for the whole, the whole for a part
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| Oxymoron | paradox reduced to two words and is used for effect, complexity, emphasis, or wit. Opposite.
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| Litotes | form of understatement, is generated by denying the opposite or contrary of the word which otherwise would be used
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| Zeugma | several similar rhetorical devices, all involving a grammatically correct linkage (or yoking together) of two or more parts of speech by another part of speech
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| Antithesis | a clear, contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing them, often in parallel structure
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| Euphemism | The act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive
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| Understatement | seem less important or serious than it is
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| Meiosis | one word, may range from bitter scorn to light derision
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| Allusion | a short, informal reference to a famous person or event
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| Allegory | extending a metaphor through an entire narrative so that objects, persons, and actions in the text are equated with meanings that lie outside the text
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| Onomatopoeia | words whose pronunciation imitates the sound the word describes
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| Pun | deliberate confusion of similar words
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| Rhetoric begins | people couldn't read and could only learn through listening to public speakers Court system and laywers
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| Kiros | practical value, guidelines to solving problems Sophists
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| Socrates | practical rhetoric, Educate people for the common good, Try to teach ethics to make people do the right thing, Logos
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| Plato | rhetoric is flatter and a way to give people what they want to hear, Done through dialectic, Rhetoric is impractical, Helen of Troy
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| Gorgias | rhetoric is art and misleadning
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| Dissoi Logoi | argue from both sides of topic
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| Aristotle | rhetoric is skill and opposite of dialectic, It is practical, logical, and theory, Rhetoric is judgement, Ethos-character, Pathos-emotion, Logos-logic
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| induction arguements | Aristotle, hard examples, from one assumption to another
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| deduction arguements | Aristotle, generally accepted truths
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| enthymeme | consider missing part, To persuade the probable, undstated opinion
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| Topos | location
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| 3 Oritotry Types of rehtoric | 1 politcal/deliberative-do or not do action 2 Forensic-attack or defend past 3 Ceremonial/epidelctic-praise or censor present
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| 5 Cannons | 1inventio-invention of topic 2Dispositio-arrangement 3elocutio-style 4pronusitatio-presentation 5memoria-memory 6actio-delivery
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| syllogy | 3 parts-> birds have feathers ,penguins are birds ,penguins have feathers
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| Ciecro | spoke in public and made treaties, Focus on latin eloquence and style, Rhetoric should teach, delight, and move, Beset orator should be learner of all subjects, Sublime-how to write effectively
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| Quintilian | rhetoric is practical, educational, and theoretical, Elementry and preliminary
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| Isocrates | education, Rhetoric is natural talant, desire, practice, and imitation, Can be taught, He wanted to be a model for his students
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