Rhetoric: Terminology
The following list of terms related to the study of rhetoric. This list is under construction as it's revised and definitions provided. For now, it's here to form the basis of a hangman word game to supply students with a fun way to test their memory. Please report any problems with the game, or any suggestions here. Enjoy!Rhetoric Hangman
- accumulation
- allegory
- alliteration
- ambiguity
- amplification
- anadiplosis
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticipation
- anticlimax
- antimetabole
- antirrhesis
- antithesis
- antonomasia
- apophasis
- aporia
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- apposition
- artistic proofs
- asiatic
- assonance
- asyndeton
- attic
- auxesis
- bdelygmia
- catachresis
- categoria
- chiasmus
- chreia
- cliche
- climax
- commonplace
- commoratio
- complex sentence
- compound sentence
- concession
- confirmation
- connotation
- copia
- crot
- decorum
- deduction
- dehortatio
- diacope
- dialectic
- distinctio
- effectio
- ellipsis
- encomium
- energia
- enthymeme
- epanalepsis
- epicrisis
- epideictic
- epimone
- epiphora
- epiplexis
- epithet
- epizeuxis
- erotesis
- ethopoeia
- ethos
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exergasia
- exuscitatio
- fable
- figures of speech
- gradatio
- homoioiteleuton
- hyperbaton
- hyperbole
- hypocrisis
- hypophora
- hypotaxis
- identification
- induction
- invective
- invented ethos
- invention
- irony
- isocolon
- kairos
- litotes
- logos
- loose sentence
- malapropism
- maxim
- meiosis
- memory
- metaphor
- metonymy
- mondegreen
- onomatopoeia
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- paralepsis
- parallelism
- paranomasia
- parataxis
- parenthesis
- parison
- pathos
- periodic sentence
- persona
- personification
- phatic communion
- pleonasm
- ploce
- polyptoton
- polysyndeton
- prolepsis
- proverb
- refutation
- rhetor
- rhetoric
- rhetorical
- rhetorician
- running style
- senecan
- sign
- simile
- simple sentence
- situated ethos
- sophist
- sprezzatura
- style
- syllepsis
- syllogistic progression
- synathroesmus
- synecdoche
- tapinosis
- tenor
- tetracolon climax
- testimony
- topics
- tricolon
- trope
- understatement
- vehicle
- voice
- zeugma
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