Question 1

Rhetoric

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the art of persuading an audience to act, approve, or agree.  It consists of three parts:
Invention- finding the arguments or proofs

Question 2

Disposition

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the arrangement of the argument or proof

Question 3

Style

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the choice of words, verbal patterns, and rhythms that will most effectively express the material

Question 4

Allusion

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when a speaker or writer refers to a familiar person, artwork, or event often in order to draw upon its themes and emotion.

Question 5

Chiasmus

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figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first of parallel clauses is reversed in the second.

Question 6

“Has the Church failed mankind, or has mankind failed the Church?”-- T. S. Eliot

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Chiasmus

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restatement

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allusion

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repetition

Question 7

Juxtaposition

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placing of two items side by side to create a certain effect, reveal an attitude, or accomplish some other purpose

Question 8

Parallelism

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where several parts of a sentence or several sentences are expressed alike to show that the ideas in the parts or sentences equal in importance.

Question 9

"I have always searched for, but never found the perfect painting for that wall.“

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parallelism

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invention

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repetition

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allusion

Question 10

Antithesis

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the rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences

Question 11

“They promised freedom and provided slavery”

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antithesis

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anadiplosis

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chiasmus

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allusion

Question 12

Anaphora

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regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses.

Question 13

"We shall fight in the trenches. We shall fight on the oceans. We shall fight in the sky."

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anaphora

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disposition

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juxtaposition

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antithesis

Question 14

Anadiplosis

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repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next clause.

Question 15

"The crime was common, common be the pain." (Alexander Pope)

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anadiplosis

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rhetoric

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anaphora

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antithesis

Question 16

Appeals to authority

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speaker claims to be an expert or relies on information provided by experts

Question 17

Appeals to reason

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using logic, facts, and statistics to convince or persuade

Question 18

Appeals to emotion

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using a persons sense of fear, justice, love, and other emotions to persuade or convince.

Question 19

Ethos

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appeals one’s sense of morality and ethics

Question 20

Pathos

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appeals to emotions designed to evoke tenderness, sympathy, or pity

Question 21

Logos

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appeals to reason with facts, statistics, or reasons

Question 22

Assonance

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the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually in successive or proximate words.

Question 23

Alliteration

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the repetition of initial consonant sounds or any vowel sounds within a formal grouping, such as a poetic line or stanza, or in close proximity in prose

Question 24

Consonance

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the repetition of two or more consonants with a change in the intervening vowels.

Question 25

"pitter-patter, splish-splash, and click-clack"

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consonance

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allusion

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assonance

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rhetoric

Question 26

Diction

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an author's choice of words to convey a tone or effect

Question 27

Imagery

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sensory details in a work that call to mind an idea, or describe an object. Imagery involves any or all of the five senses

Question 28

Charged words

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words likely to produce an emotional response such as “justice,” “tyranny,” or “racism.”

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