Rhetoric Vocab

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Pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables in poetry.

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Meter

Front

Arrangement of words.

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Syntax

Front

Conventions of a language.

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Grammar

Front

Understatement for greater effect.

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Meiosis

Front

Brief, indirect reference to a significant person, place, thing, or idea.

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Allusion

Front

A statement in question form with no expected answer.

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Rhetorical question

Front

Appeal to credibility, ethics, or morals.

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Ethos

Front

An appeal to logic or reason.

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Logos

Front

An appeal to emotion.

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Pathos

Front

A poem in iambic pentameter, 14 lines, regular rhyme-scheme.

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Sonnet