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Rhetoric midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Metaphor | compares two different things by speaking of one in terms of the other |
| Simile | comparison between two different things that resemble each other in at least one way |
| 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 |
| Personification | animal or inanimate object as having human attributes |
| Hyperbole | the counterpart of understatement, deliberately exaggerates conditions for emphasis or effect |
| Synecdoche | type of metaphor in which the part stands for the whole, the whole for a part |
| Oxymoron | paradox reduced to two words and is used for effect, complexity, emphasis, or wit. Opposite. |
| Litotes | form of understatement, is generated by denying the opposite or contrary of the word which otherwise would be used |
| 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 |
| Antithesis | a clear, contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing them, often in parallel structure |
| Euphemism | The act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive |
| Understatement | seem less important or serious than it is |
| Meiosis | one word, may range from bitter scorn to light derision |
| Allusion | a short, informal reference to a famous person or event |
| 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 |
| Onomatopoeia | words whose pronunciation imitates the sound the word describes |
| Pun | deliberate confusion of similar words |
| Rhetoric begins | people couldn't read and could only learn through listening to public speakers Court system and laywers |
| Kiros | practical value, guidelines to solving problems Sophists |
| Socrates | practical rhetoric, Educate people for the common good, Try to teach ethics to make people do the right thing, Logos |
| Plato | rhetoric is flatter and a way to give people what they want to hear, Done through dialectic, Rhetoric is impractical, Helen of Troy |
| Gorgias | rhetoric is art and misleadning |
| Dissoi Logoi | argue from both sides of topic |
| Aristotle | rhetoric is skill and opposite of dialectic, It is practical, logical, and theory, Rhetoric is judgement, Ethos-character, Pathos-emotion, Logos-logic |
| induction arguements | Aristotle, hard examples, from one assumption to another |
| deduction arguements | Aristotle, generally accepted truths |
| enthymeme | consider missing part, To persuade the probable, undstated opinion |
| Topos | location |
| 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 |
| 5 Cannons | 1inventio-invention of topic 2Dispositio-arrangement 3elocutio-style 4pronusitatio-presentation 5memoria-memory 6actio-delivery |
| syllogy | 3 parts-> birds have feathers ,penguins are birds ,penguins have feathers |
| 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 |
| Quintilian | rhetoric is practical, educational, and theoretical, Elementry and preliminary |
| 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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