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October Terms Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| exuscitatio | emotional utterance that seeks to move an audience to a similar feeling |
| epideictic | ceremonial; to commemorate |
| judicial | forensic; accusing/defending |
| deliberative | persuading; trying to affect one's opinion |
| encomium | eulogy or tribute |
| enthymeme | informally stated syllogism with an implied premise |
| epicrisis | to quote and respond to the quote |
| exordium | attention-grabbing device |
| exposition | background info |
| refutation | to prove wrong with argument/evidence |
| peroration | conclusion; look to the future |
| prolepsis | look to the future in anticipation |
| testimony | firsthand authentication of a fact |
| tropes | words used in unusual ways |
| consonance | the repitition of interior consonant sounds |
| assonance | the repitition of interior vowel sounds |
| commoratio | emphasizing a point by repeating it in different words |
| epanalepsis | "Always low prices. Always." |
| epimone | repitition of a phrase/question. |
| epistrophe | repeating words at the ends of clauses/phrases etc |
| epizeuxis | repitition of word/phrase |
| ploce | word is separated or repeated by way of emphasis. "Caesar was CAESAR" |
| polyptoton | use of the same word in different cases; "Choosy moms choose Jif." |
| tenor | the actual subject of a metaphor |
| vehicle | a method the author uses to achieve purpose |
| archaism | a word/expression not in general use at the time of writing |