rhetorical vocabulary list five

technically, the way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences; although somewhat over simplified, it can also be thought of as word order or sentence structure

• diction

• denotation

• connotation

• syntax

• exposition

needless repetition which adds no meaning or understanding

• solecism

• syllogism

• zeugma

• synthesia

• tautology

repetition at the end of successive clauses

• epistrophe

• anaphora

• anadiplosis

• tautology

• malapropism

placing two elements side-byside to present a comparison or contrast

• idiom

• juxtaposition

• inference

• rhetoric

• irony

in one sense it is the sum of the choices an author makes in blending diction, syntax, figurative language, and other literary devices. In another sense, it is the classification of authors into a group

• generic conventions

• figurative language

• style

• genre

• figure of speech

more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept

• pedantic

• conceit

• vernacular

• invective

• euphemism

work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule…..sometimes the style of writing rather than the purpose of writing…often characterized by such devices as: irony, wit, parody, caricature, hyperbole, and understatement

• exposition

• satire

• prose

• jargon

• metonymy

overused and consequently of little import; lacking originality or freshness; hackneyed, cliché

• trite

• pedantic

• colloquial

• tautology

• solecism

to draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented

• pedantic

• inference

• wit

• invective

• polysyndeton

refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms

• diction

• syntax

• style

• prose

• genre