1.

It is a statement that is recast to stress it or achieve audience contact, as in the rhetorical

question. Figures of thought
2. It is a deliberate process of casting subject into language; the same ideas can be expressed in
different words with different effects. Style
3. Gorgias was considered as the father of Sophistry because he ushered the innovation of rhetoric
on a basic technical level. True
4. It is the correctness of grammar and usage, clarity, ornamentation, and propriety. Virtues
5. It includes "tropes," literally "turnings" or substitutions of one term for another; as in metaphor.
Ornamentation
6. Gorgias of Leontini is the teacher of Empedocles. False
7. What are the two parts of style? Dictio, Composition
8. Gorgias is an Aristocratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC. False
9. It changes in the sound or arrangement of a sequence of words, such as anaphora or asyndeton.
Figures of speech

Answer 1
Simile Explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature
 
Answer 2
Oxymoron Juxtaposing two ordinarily contradictory terms
 
Answer 3
Hyperbole The use of exaggerated terms for emphasis or heightened effect
 
Answer 4
Metaphor Implied comparison between two things of unlike nature
 
Onomatopoei Answer 5
a Use of words whose sound echoes the sense
 
Answer 6
Personification Investing human qualities in abstractions or inanimate objects
 
Answer 7
Apposition Juxtaposing two co-ordinate elements
 
Answer 8
Parallelism Similarity of structure
 
Answer 9
Irony Use of a word to convey a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word
 
Answer 10
Assonance Repetition of similar vowel sounds
 

1. It is a perspective that places metaphors at the heart of rhetorical action. Metaphoric

Criticism
2. Which is NOT a step in Metaphoric criticism? Evaluate the metaphors used
 3. It is referring to the concept, object or person meant for the metaphor. Tenor
4. Which is NOT a limitation of the Neo-Aristotelian criticism? No standardization in the
analysis
5. Metaphors mediate our experience and mediate among individuals creating common
worlds. False
6. It is the image that carries the weight of the comparison. Vehicle
7. The goal is to determine the effects that stories are expected to have on their audience.
Narrative Criticism
8. The first step in the method of Neo-Aristotelian criticism. Evaluate the context
9. Its goal is to identify aspects of the rhetorical action that explains its persuasive effect
on the audience. Neo-Aristotelian Criticism
10. Match the following concept of narrative analysis to its meaning.

It refers to the amount of space given to reporting

Answer 1
individual episodes or by the number of times that a Duration and Frequency of Events
particular event is referenced in the narrative.  
It is the spatial, temporal, and social locations of events
Answer 2
that are significant for how readers construe what is Settings
reported in a narrative.  
It is the order in which a narrative relates events, readers
are expected to consider each new episode in light of what
Answer 3
has gone before. Ordering Events
 

It refers to the readers’ perception of how the characters

are and it may be shaped by comments from the narrator, Answer 4
by reports of the characters’ own words, deed, or Characterization
 
perceptions
It is the figures of speech and other symbolic languages
Answer 5
that readers are expected to understand in a way that Symbolism
transcends the most literal application.  
It may be flat and predictable or they may exhibit a wide
Answer 6
variety of traits who are presented as enlightened in one Characters
instance and yet as lacking insight in another.  
It presents a diverse perspective concerning what is
Answer 7
transpiring in the story, and readers are expected to regard Point of View
some of these as more reliable than others.  
It is the assumption that the readers are already familiar Answer 8
with other texts and so borrowing freely from motifs that Intertextuality
 
these texts employ.
It drives the plot and involves the readers in the Answer 9
adjudication of opposing tendencies. Conflict
 
It contains literary cues that run contrary to what might
Answer 10
initially appear to be the obvious interpretation that readers Irony
are expected to interpret in the story.  
11. Metaphor structures the way we think but not the way we act. False
12.