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11th-Terminology 1
RhetoricTerminology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allusion | A brief, usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event--real or fictional. |
| Procatalepsis | Foreseeing and forestalling objections to an argument. |
| Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds. |
| Parallelism | Parallelism, or parallel construction, occurs when a writer or speaker expresses ideas of equal worth with the same grammatical form. |
| Antithesis | Using opposite phrases in close conjunction. The best antitheses express their contrary ideas in a balanced sentence. |
| Metaphor | An indirect comparison between two unlike things. Instead of using words like “like” or “as”, it implies the comparison. |
| Anaphora | The intentional repetition of beginning clauses in order to create an artistic effect. |
| Exemplum | Citing an example; using an illustrative story, either true or fictitious |
| Everyone refers to Mary as another Mother Teresa in the making; she loves to help and care for people. In the example the author uses the mention of Mother Teresa to indicate the sort of qualities that Mary has. | allusion |
| "I may be asked, why I am so anxious to bring this subject before the British public .....My answer is, first, that slavery is the common enemy of mankind, ... My next answer is, that the slave is a man, ..." | Procatalepsis |
| The Wicked Witch of the West went her own way. (In this example the ‘W’ sound is repeated throughout the sentence.) | Alliteration |
| "When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative." (MLK) -- note the sentence construction | Parallelism |
| "Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing." (Goethe) | Antithesis |
| “Henry was a lion on the battlefield”. This sentence suggests that Henry fought so valiantly and bravely that he embodied all the personality traits we attribute to the ferocious animal. | Metaphor |
| I fled Him down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind... — Francis Thompson, The Hound of Heaven | Anaphora |
| We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with ... we shall defend our island, ..., we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall | Anaphora |
| With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right,... — Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address | Anaphora |
| Using a story that illustrate a general principle or underscores a moral lesson: | Exemplum |
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