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

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

needless repetition which adds no meaning or understanding

• solecism

• syllogism

• zeugma

• synthesia

• tautology

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

repetition at the end of successive clauses

• epistrophe

• anaphora

• anadiplosis

• tautology

• malapropism

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

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

• idiom

• juxtaposition

• inference

• rhetoric

• irony

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

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

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

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

• pedantic

• conceit

• vernacular

• invective

• euphemism

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

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

• trite

• pedantic

• colloquial

• tautology

• solecism

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

to draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented

• pedantic

• inference

• wit

• invective

• polysyndeton

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms

• diction

• syntax

• style

• prose

• genre

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D