2024 Mrs. O' Mahony Rhetorical Terms Test 5

2024 Mrs. O' Mahony Rhetorical Terms Test 5 Pedantic *Ans* A term used to describe writing that borders on lecturing. It is scholarly and academic and often overly difficult and distant. Personification *Ans* The attribution of human qualities to a nonhuman or inanimate object. Persuasion *Ans* A form of argumentation, one of the four modes of discourse; language intended to convince through appeals to reason or emotion. Point of view *Ans* The perspective from which a story is presented; common _________ include the first person narrator, stream of consciousness, omniscient, limited omniscient, and objective. First person narrator *Ans* A narrator referred to as "I", who is a character in the story and relates the actions through his or her own perspective, also revealing his or her own thoughts. Stream of consciousness *Ans* Like a first person narrator, but instead placing the reader inside the characters head, making the reader privy to the continuous, chaotic flow of disconnected, halfformed thoughts and impressions in the character's mind.