Rhetorical Strategies Quiz Definitions

Repeating of a word for emphasis

• Metaphor

• Irony

• Syntax

• Repetition

an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

• Historical Context

• Understatement

• Connotation

• Euphemism

Comparing something without using like or as

• Diction

• Metaphor

• Imagery

• Mood

an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or harsh.

• Euphemism

• Alliteration

• Symbol

• Parallel Structure

a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person

• Rhetorical Question

• Irony

• Tone

• Anecdote

The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite of what the writer intends to achieve.

• Tone

• Repetition

• Irony

• Connotation

am attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience.

• Allusion

• Tone

• Mood

• Personification

the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.

• Understatement

• Mood

• Parallel Structure

• Symbol

refers to the social, religious, economic, and political conditions that existed during a certain time and place.

• Anecdote

• Paradox

• Rhetorical Question

• Historical Context

made up of two opposite things and seems impossible or untrue but is actually possible or true.

• Allusion

• Repetition

• Paradox

• Euphemism