Rhetorical Terms

The grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences or paragraphs to give structural similarity

• parallelism

• tautology

• repetition

• metonymy

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a. Appeal to logic (statistics, facts, and reasons)

• ethos

• pathos

• diction

• logos

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

To list; determine the number of

• zeugma

• enumeration

• tricolon

• objectivity

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

An elaborate metaphor sustained over a number of lines or paragraphs

• extended metaphor

• anecdote

• conceit

• eulogy

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Informal language; conversational language

• litotes

• dialect

• diction

• colloquial

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The author's main point or argument about a topic

• declarative sentence

• understatement

• claim

• Counterclaim

An oration in honor of a deceased person

• exhortation

• anecdote

• eulogy

• pathetic appeal

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

An individual instance taken to be representative of a general pattern

• dialect

• imperative

• aphorism

• exemplum

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

A figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means and thus creating emphasis

• polemic

• pathetic appeal

• objectivity

• understatement

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

A two-word paradox

• antithesis

• oxymoron

• aphorism

• chiasmus

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A