RhetoricalTerms

RHETORICAL and LITERARY TERMS ASSIGNMENTS

Link to LON-CAPA Online Learning Network - Needed for completion of all Literary and Rhetorical Terms Quizzes and Tests.

ALL RHETORICAL TERMS PRESENTATION, QUIZ, AND EXAM INFORMATION FOR ENTIRE FIRST SEMESTER OF 2009 - 2010 SCHOOL YEAR

* All information subject to change by teacher.

You will be quizzed on all the following terms on Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Allegory Abstract Alliteration Anecdote Antagonist Archetype Assonance Characterization Chronological Clause Consonance Contrast Dramatic Irony Dystopia Exposition Figurative Language Hyperbole Imagery Metaphor Modifier Mood Motif Narrative Onomatopoeia Personification Predicate Protagonist Simile Simple Sentence Symbol Theme Thesis Statement Tone Topic Sentence Transistion Understatement Utopia

All required Terms for Presentation (Mon., Oct. 05th) and Quiz (Thurs., Oct. 08th) #1

(Second Hour Presenters: Currier, Marvin, & Mediate) (Third Hour Presenters: Watson)

Ambiguity Analogy Archaism Connotation Emblem Juxtaposition Parable Paradox

Parody Regional Dialect Rhetoric Semantics Satire Topothesia Voice

All required Terms for Presentation (Mon., Oct. 12th) and Quiz (Wed., Oct. 14th) #2

(Second Hour Presenters: Bauer, Killingbeck, Nichols, & Stark) (Third Hour Presenters: McLeod, Rinkus, & Roberts)

Allusion Antithesis Appositive Assertion Cliche Digression Epiphany Epistolary Novel

Establishing Credibility In Medias Res Invective Irony Pedantic Periodic Sentence Reiteration

Style Subjectivity

All required Terms for Presentation (Mon., Oct. 19th) and Quiz (Wed., Oct. 21st) #3

(Second Hour Presenters: Beutler, Crabbe, Riccardi, & Zdziarski) (Third Hour Presenters: Delor, Phillips, & Wozniak)

Anacoluthon Anadiplosis Antilogy Continued or Extended Metaphor Denotation Epithet

Figure of Speech Foil Genre Linguistics Monosyllabic Paralepsis Pleonasm Purpose

Stream of Consciousness Syntax Taxis

CUMULATIVE TEST OVER QUIZZES and PRESENTATIONS One through Three:

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

All required Terms for Presentation (Mon., Nov. 02nd) and Quiz (Wed., Nov. 04th) #4

(Second Hour Presenters: Ellsworth, Grosso, & Rize) (Third Hour Presenters: Sloan & Wasik)

Aposiopesis Apotheosis Asyndeton Colloquialism Concrete Language Euphemism Hypotaxis

Loose Sentence Metonymy Nuance Pathetic Fallacy Point-of-View Polysyndeton Polysyllabic

Syllogism Synchysis Tasis

All required Terms for Presentation (Mon., Nov. 09th) and Quiz (Wed., Nov. 11th) #5

(Second Hour Presenters: Roberts, Turner, & Wright) (Third Hour Presenters: Curtis & Erickson)

Anaphora Antimetabole Ascription Cacophony Catachresis Diction Epanalepsis Eponym

Explication Generic or Stock Character Hypotyposis Microcosm Objectivity Oxymoron

Prose Synecdoche Synesis

All required Terms for Presentation (Mon., Nov. 16th) and Quiz (Wed., Nov. 18th) #6

(Second Hour Presenters: Housley, Mattioli, & Slabaugh) (Third Hour Presenters: Fox & Limburg)

Amplification Antecedent Antitheton Catharsis Didactic Epiplexis Hyperbaton

Hypophora Internal Monologue Parallelism Prolepsis Pun

Rhetorical Question Symploce Synopsis

CUMULATIVE TEST over Quizzes Four through Six:

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

All required Terms for Presentation (Mon., Nov. 30th) and Quiz (Wed., Dec. 02nd) #7

(Second Hour Presenters: Feenstra, Firavich, & Lenhert) (Third Hour Presenters: More & Regorrah)

Antanaclasis Apophasis Chiasmus Discourse Epizeuxis Epistrophe

Hasty Generalization Inference Metalepsis Paraprosdokian Philophronesis Sarcasm Syllepsis

Syntheton Wit

All required Terms for Presentation (Mon., Dec. 07th) and Quiz (Wed., Dec. 09th) #8

(Second Hour Presenters: Johnson, Shah, & Shallman) (Third Hour Presenters: Chodos & Piper)

Antistrophe Apostrophe Anesis Aporia Enthymeme Hypozeuxis Mesodiplosis Metanoia

Paragoge Paramythia Paraphrasis Ploce Skotison Subplot Systrophe Tapinosis

All required Terms for Presentation (Mon. Dec. 14th) and Quiz (Wed., Dec. 16th) #9

(Second Hour Presenters: Lagowski, Pietrzak, & Underhill) (Third Hour Presenters: Burt & King)

Terms printed in Black will NOT be on the third cumulative exam.

Terms printed in RED WILL be on the third cumulative exam.

Aphorism (a terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation)

Anastrophe (deviation from subject-verb-predicate order or whenever normal syntactical arrangment is violated for emphasis: the verb before the subject-noun (normal syntax follows the order subject-noun, verb))

Antanagoge (placing a good point or benefit next to a fault criticism, or problem in order to reduce the impact or significance of the negative point)

Diacope (uninterrupted repetition of a word, or repetition with only one or two words between each repeated phrase)

Epiphora (repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc.)

Metabasis (a brief statement of what has been said and what will follow)

Parataxis (in grammar refers to placing together sentences, clauses or phrases without conjunctions)

Polemic (an argument, especially a text that promotes one side of an argument or one point-of-view)

Polyptoton (repetition of a word in a different case or inflection in the same sentence)

Procatalepsis (the speaker raises an objection to his own argument and then immediately answers it)

Scesis Onomaton (a rhetorical trope that emphasizes an idea by expressing it in a string of generally synonymous phrases or statements)

Testimony (an assertion offering firsthand authentication of a fact; something that serves as supporting evidence)

Transferred Epithet (the grammatical agreement of a word with another word which it does not logically qualify)

Zeugma (a figure of speech in which a verb or adjective applies to two or more words, with only one of which it seems logically connected)

The following terms will NOT appear on the third cumulative test: Conduplicatio Litotes Systole

CUMULATIVE TEST OVER QUIZZES SEVEN through NINE:

Wednesday, January 06th, 2010

Part II of First Semester Final Exam over ALL terms from the entire first semester:

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010.