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Rhetoric Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Allegory | A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions. |
| Anadiplosis | The repetition of the last word of the preceding clause. |
| Anaphora | a type of parallelism, repetition of the same word or a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses |
| Anecdote | A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event |
| Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun |
| Antimetabole | The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast |
| Antithesis | A statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced |
| Aphorism | A concise statement that expresses a general truth or a moral principle |
| Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction. |
| Appositive | A noun, phrase, or clause which follows a noun or pronoun and renames or describes the noun or pronoun |
| Asyndeton | Deliberately leaving our conjunctions between words,phrases, clauses. |
| Charactonym | A name that suggests the personality traits of a fictional character |
| Chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed |
| Colloquial | The use of slang or informal expressions in speech or writing |
| Compound-complex sentence | A sentence with two or more principal clauses and one or more subordinate clauses |
| Concrete details | Details that relate to or describe actual, specific things or events. |
| Cumulative sentence | A sentence in which the main independent clause is elaborated by the successive addition of modifying clauses of phrases |
| Deductive reasoning | Reasoning in which a conclusion is reached by stating a general principle and then applying that principle to a specific case |
| Denotation | The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of emotion, attitude, or color |
| Ellipsis | The omission of a word or phrase which is grammatically necessary but can be deduced from the context |
| Epistrophe | The opposite of anaphors, repetition at the end of successive clauses |
| Epizuexis | A rhetorical expression where a word is repeated for emphasis, with no other words between |
| Euphemism | An indirect, less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept. |
| Idiom | An expression in a given language that cannot be understood from the literal meaning of the words in the expression |
| Implication | A suggestion the writer or speaker makes without stating it directly |
| Inverted syntax/inversion | A sentence where the predicate comes before the subject |
| Litotes | A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its oppostie |
| Loose sentence | A type of sentence in which the main idea comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses |
| Metonymy | A figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it |
| Paradox | A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity |
| Periodic sentence | A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end |
| Polysyndeton | Deliberately using a series of conjuctions |
| Sententia | Quoting a maxim or wise saying to apply a general truth to a situation |
| Subordinate clause | Contains both a subject and a verb |
| Synecdoche | A part of something is used to represent the whole or, occasionally, the whole is used to represent a part |
| Synesthesia | Describing one kind of sensation in terms of another |
| Tautology | Needless repetition which adds no meaning or understanding |
| Zeugma | A construction in which one word modifies two or more words in a sentence |
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