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Rhetorical Terms 5
Ms. Hamon Rhetorical Terms List 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Loose Sentence | A sentence that is grammatically complete (completes the main thought) quickly at the beginning, and then continues to add details. |
| Periodic Sentence | A sentence that, no matter how long, is not grammatically complete until the end. |
| Caesura | A pause, metrical or rhetorical, occurring somewhere in a line of poetry. |
| Metonymy | Metonymy refers to the substitution of one thing for another closely identified thing. |
| Monologue | An extended speech by one person. |
| Mood | The emotions intended to be felt by the reader of a literary work. |
| Tone | The attitude of a writer toward his/her subject. |
| Motif | A usually recurring salient thematic element, especially a dominant or central theme. |
| Onomatopoeia | Onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the sound it represents. |
| Persona | Literally a mask. The narrator in a non first-person novel. In a third person novel, even though the author isn’t a character, you get some idea of the author’s personality. However, it isn’t really the author’s personality because the author is manipulat |
| Paradox | Paradox reveals a kind of truth that at first seems contradictory. |
| Parody | A work of art in which the style of author is imitated for comic effect or ridicule. |
| Personification | The attribution of human characteristics to nonhuman things. |
| Aphorism | Aphorism is a brief saying embodying a moral, a concise statement of a principle or precept given in pointed words. |
| Rhetoric | The art of communication, especially persuasive communication. |
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