Word Bank and Rhetorical Strategies

Diffident - Showing or characterized by a lack of self-confidence; timid; shy
Cant - Hypocritically pious talk
Vivace - Lively; quickly; briskly
Expedient - n 1. That which furthers or promotes an end. 2. A devise
adj 1. Serving to promote a desired end; suitable; useful; advisable
2. Pertaining to or based on utility or advantage rather than what is just or right.
Precipitate - 1. Lacking due deliberation; hasty 2. Sudden and brief
Supposition - Something supposed; a conjecture or hypothesis
Asperity - Roughness or harshness
Aspirate - 1. To utter with a breathing or as if preceeded by the letter h 2. To follow a
consonant with an explosive release of breath
Condescend - To come down voluntarily to equal terms with a supposed inferior so as to do
something; deign
Lucid - easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible
Soporific - Causing or tending to cause sleep
Blather - Foolish talk
Amenable - Ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence, persuasion, or advice; agreeable; submissive; tractable
Abiguous - Capable of being understood in more senses than one
Saccharine - Very sweet; cloyingly sweet
Reportage - 1. The act or technique of reporting news 2. A written account of an act, event, history, etc., based on direct observation or on thorough research and documentation.
Fealty - Fidelity; faithfulness
Plausible - Having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable
Obsolete - Being out of use or out of fashion, as a word or style
Sentient - Having the power of feeling or perception
Moribund - 1. In a dying state; near death. 2. On verge of extinction
Sententious - 1. Saying much in few words; terse; pithy 2. Habitually using or full of aphoristic or moralistic language
Aphorism - A brief, pithy statement of a truth or principle; maxim
Pithy - Forcible or effective
Maxim - A brief statement of a practical principle or proposition; a saying
Epigram - A pithy, caustic, or thought-provoking saying
Caustic - Stinging, biting, sarcastic
Opaque - Not transparent or translucent; impentrable to light
Turgid - Inflated, overblown, or pompous; bombastic
Convoluted - Complicated; intricately involved
Paradigm - An example serving as a model; pattern
Parse - To analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents

Rhetorical Strategies

Alliteration - Repitition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence
Allusion - Brief reference to a person, event, or place, real of fictionous, or to a work of art
Antimetabole - Repitition of words in reverse order
Archaic Diction - Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words
Cumulative Sentence - Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence, and then builds and adds on.
Hortative sentence - Sentence that exorts, advises, calls to action
Imperative Sentence - Sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or intreat
Inversion - Inverted order of words in a sentence
Juxtaposition - Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Metonymy - Using a single feature to represent the whole
Parallelism - Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases or clauses.
Periodic Sentence - Sentence whose main clause is withheld till the end