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Rhetorical Terms 1
Ms. Hamon Rhetorical Terms List 1
Question | Answer |
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Litotes | Understatement; a statement that says less then what it means. The opposite of HYPERBOLE. |
Hyperbole | Overstatement; a figure of speech in which the author over-exaggerates to accomplish some purpose, usually emphasis. |
Anecdote | A brief story used in an essay to illustrate a point. |
Details | Facts that are revealed by the author or speaker that support the attitude or tone in a piece of poetry or prose. |
Imagery | Words or phrases that create pictures or images in the reader's mind; description based on any of the five senses. |
Parallelism | Recurrent syntactical similarity. In this structural arrangement, several parts of a sentence or several sentences are developed and phrased similarly to show that the ideas in the parts ir sentences are equal in importance. |
Antithesis | A figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting word, clauses, or ideas, as in "Man proposes, God disposes." Antithesis is a balancing of one term against another. |
Aphorism | A brief, sometimes clever saying that expresses a principle, truth, or observation about life. |
Metaphor | A comparision in which an unknown item is understood by directly comparing it to a known item |
Simile | An indirect comparison using "like" or "as" |
Diction | A writer's/speakers choice of words intended to convey a particular effect. |
Syntax | The arrangement of word and the order of grammatical elements in a sentence. |
Logos | An appeal to the logic of the readers/audience. |
Pathos | An appeal to the emotions of the readers/audience. |
Ethos | An appeal based on the credibility of the author. |