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Rhetoric Terms!
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Arrangement | help writers order and structure parts of text, and support the different parts |
| Style | choices writer makes regarding words, phrases, and sentences |
| Delivery | how the text is delivered; presentation |
| Context | the situation prompting the writer |
| The three appeals | ethos, pathos, and logos to influence |
| Invention | how the writer generates the material in a clear, forceful, appealing way |
| Systematic Invention Strategies | defined invention strategies |
| Intuitive Invention Strategies | open and spontaneous invention strategies |
| Drastic pentad | act, scene, agent, agency, purpose - systematic invention to understand relationship |
| Ratios | Burke's elements in a relationship of text |
| Casuistries | little mental games when analyzing or creating a text |
| syllogism | logical reasoning - Aristotle |
| major premise | irrefutable generalization |
| minor premise | particular instance of the generalization |
| conclusion | idea which logically follows |
| Enthymeme | similar to syllogism - but an assumption is in place of the major premise |
| Rhetorical modes | place where writers use particular patterns of reasoning to generate ideas |
| Common topics | topics based off of Aristotle's to take inventory or generating material |
| Jargon | specialized vocab; confused, unintelligible language |
| three broad categories of style | sentences, words, figures |
| compound sentence | 2 clauses, if no conjunction, each clause could be a simple sentence |
| complex sentence | 2 clauses, one independent, one sub-ordinate to main-clause |
| most emphatic locations in a sentence | 1. end 2. beginning |
| loose and periodic sentences | Loose: details after simple sentence; Periodic: details at beginning or middle |
| parallelism | parallel structure; words, phrases, clauses, sentences balance each other |
| diction | word choice, style of speech |
| the ladder of abstraction | top of the ladder: general words bottom of ladder: specific words |
| formal vs. informal | formal: is not informal: isn't |
| Latinate words | words with higher class association; from Latin roots |
| denotation | literal meaning of a word |
| connotation | association or implied definition of a word |
| scheme | artful variation from the typical arrangement of words |
| trope | artful variation from the typical/expected way a word/idea is expressed |
| parallelism of words, phrases, clauses | scheme involving balance |
| antithesis | parallelism is used to juxtapose, balance, points out differences |
| antithesis of words, phrases, clauses | juxtapose to emphasize contrast |
| antimetabole | words are repeated in different grammatical forms |
| appositive | a construction in which 2 coordinating elements are set side by side, 2nd modifies the first |
| ellipsis | any omission of words, the meaning is provided by overall context |
| asyndeton | an omission of conjuntions between relatied clauses |
| alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds of adjacent words |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two or more adjacent words |
| anaphora | repetition of same group of words at the beginning of successive clauses |
| epistrophe | repetition of same group of words at the end of successive clauses |
| anadiplosis | repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause |
| climax | repetition of words, phrases, and clauses in order of increasing importance |
| climing the ladder | anadiplosis and climax - two schemes together |
| metaphor | comparison not using like or as |
| simile | comparison using like or as |
| synechdoche | part of something used to refer to the whole |
| metonymy | an entity referred to y one of its attributes |
| personification | inanimate objects are given human characteristics |
| periphrasis | descriptive word/phrase referring to a proper name |
| pun | a word that suggests two of its meaning or the meaning of a homonym |
| anthimeria | one part of speech, usually a verb, substitutes for another, usually a noun |
| onomatopoeia | sounds of the words used are realted to their meaning |
| hyperbole | overstatement |
| litotes | understatement |
| irony | words are meant to convey the poopsite of ther literal meaning |
| oxymoron | words with apparent contradictory meanings placed by each other |
| rhetorical question | question designed not to secure an answer but more development of an idea |
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