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Rhetorical Terms Review “Game”
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How to Play A rhetorical term definition will appear on the screen
As a group, you will have 30 seconds to define it and put it on the board. When time is up, every group will read their answer Groups that correctly define the word earn 1 point; groups that have no answer or an incorrect answer earn 0 points
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Turning one's speech from one audience to another
Turning one's speech from one audience to another. Most often, apostrophe occurs when one addresses oneself to an abstraction, to an inanimate object, or to the absent apostrophe
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Repetition of ideas or grammatical structures in inverted order
chiasmus
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The omission of conjunctions between clauses, often resulting in a hurried rhythm or vehement effect
asyndeton
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Deliberate understatement, especially when expressing a thought by denying its opposite
litotes
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Reference to something or someone by naming one of its attributes (Ex
Reference to something or someone by naming one of its attributes (Ex., “The pen is mightier than the sword”) metonymy
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A whole is represented by naming one of its parts (genus named for species), or vice versa (species named for genus) synecdoche
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Rhetorical exaggeration
Rhetorical exaggeration. Hyperbole is often accomplished via comparisons, similes, and metaphors hyperbole
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Substituting a more favorable for a pejorative or socially delicate term
euphemism
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Using or inventing a word whose sound imitates that which it names (the union of phonetics and semantics) onomatopoeia
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Employing many conjunctions between clauses, often slowing the tempo or rhythm
polysyndeton
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Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
parallelism
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Round Two This time an example will appear on the screen
As a group, you will have 30 seconds to define it and put it on the board. Some words may not be on review guide When time is up, every group will read their answer Groups that correctly identify the device earn 2 points; groups that have no answer or an incorrect answer earn 0 points
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It is boring to eat; to sleep is fulfilling
chiasmus
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The ship of state has sailed through rougher storms than the tempest of these lobbyists
allegory
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny compared to what lies within us.
epistrophe
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The Sounds of Silence oxymoron
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For ever since that time you went away I've been a rabbit burrowed in the wood
metaphor
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We’re sorry to hear that your husband has passed on.
euphemism
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Running a marathon in under two hours is no small accomplishment
litotes
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The insatiable hunger for imagination preys upon human life
personification
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I came; I saw; I conquered
asyndeton
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Employing many conjunctions between clauses, often slowing the tempo or rhythm
polysyndeton
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I've told you a million times not to exaggerate
hyperbole
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The pen is mightier than the sword
metonymy
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Listen, you've got to come take a look at my new set of wheels
synecdoche
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My love is like a red, red rose
simile
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She tried to make her pastry fluffy, sweet, and delicate
parallelism
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Final Round On the next few slides, a device, logical fallacy, or definition/example will appear. As a group, you will have 30 seconds to define it and put it on the board. Groups that correctly identify the device earn 1 point; groups that have no answer or an incorrect answer earn 0 points
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Apostrophe When a speaker breaks off from addressing one party and instead addresses a third party. This third party may be an individual, either present or absent in the scene. It can also be an inanimate object, like a dagger, or an abstract concept, such as death or the sun.
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The argument that since something is popular or everybody is doing it, so should you. Think of peer pressure or popularity as being the basis of the argument. Bandwagon
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An extended metaphor with complex logic
Conceit
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Trope The artful use of diction
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EXAMPLE Slippery Slope
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Ad Hominem An argument or reaction directed at a person rather than the position they are maintaining.
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The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself
Equivocation
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Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
Assuming that because "B" follows "A," "A" must have caused "B.” Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc Faulty Cause
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I don’t have time to do homework because homework is costing me a lot of time.
Circular reasoning
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Scheme The artful use of sentence structure
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Straw Man
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EXAMPLE Red-Herring
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