Rhetorical Analysis Term Review

2. The speaker or author's attitude toward the subject, audience, or situation as conveyed through language and choices.
7. An appeal designed to evoke an audience's emotions or feelings.
10. When a person, object, image, or action represents an idea beyond its literal meaning.
13. Deliberate and extreme exaggeration used for emphasis or effect.
15. An indirect reference to a well-known person, event, text, place, or idea.
16. An appeal based on logic, reasoning, facts, or evidence.
17. A brief story or personal experience used to illustrate an idea or make a point.
18. A deliberate contrast between opposing ideas, often expressed through balanced or parallel structure.
19. The deliberate reuse of a word, phrase, sound, or idea to emphasize it.
20. Overall, a contrast between what is expected and what actually occurs, or between what is said and what is meant; there are three types.
21. An author's deliberate choice of words and the effects those choices create; there are specific types (we covered 8).

1. A deliberate presentation of something as less important, serious, or significant than it actually is.
3. Like simile and metaphor, a comparison between two situations or ideas used to explain, clarify, or illustrate a point.
4. The use of similar grammatical structures to create balance, rhythm, or emphasis.
5. Giving human qualities, emotions, or actions to something nonhuman.
6. An appeal to the speaker's credibility, character, expertise, or trustworthiness.
8. The placement of contrasting ideas, images, or elements near one another to emphasize their differences.
9. A comparison between two unlike things using like or as.
11. A direct comparison in which one thing is described as or equated with another unlike thing.
12. A question posed for effect rather than to receive an actual answer.
14. Descriptive language that creates a sensory experience or vivid mental picture for the reader.
18. The repetition of beginning consonant sounds in nearby words.