English Vocab

Is rhetoric used to influence an audience by using words and phases with strong connotations.

• Verbal irony

• Understatement

• Figurative language

• Loaded Language

Is a type of communication that does not use a word’s strict or realistic meaning.

• Contrast

• Figurative Language

• Allusion

• Anaphoric

Comparing two things in order to show the differences between them, an author uses contrast when describing differences between two or more entities.

• Contrast

• Amplification

• Aporia

• Loaded Language

An irresolvable internal contradiction or logical disjunction in a text, argument, or theory.

• Allusion

• Euphemism

• Aporia

• Anaphora

Smile or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.

• Loaded Language

• Euphemism

• Oxymoron

• Juxtaposition

A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

• Chiasmus

• Verbal irony

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

The way a writer embellishes a sentence in order to emphasize or exaggerate certain points.

• Contrast

• Amplification

• Loaded Language

• Euphemism

A rhetorical or literary figure words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form.

• Simile

• Chiasmus

• Aporia

• Ethos, Pathos, Logos

An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

• Aporia

• Hyperbole

• Figurative language

• Allusion

A figure of speech involving the comparison of one ting with another thing or a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic.

• Simile

• Rhetorical question

• Anaphora

• Epistrophe