Question | Answer |
rhetoric | skillful, effective use of language |
rhetorical strategies | specific patterns and structures that writers employ to express themselves more effectively and memorably |
does rhetoric include figures of speech or sound devices? | no |
tricolon | series of of three coordinate items. series of three provide an emotionally satisfying completeness. |
"we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground" | tricolon because it's 3 |
anaphora | beginning each item with the same words; repetition at the beginning of sucessive phrases or clauses |
asyntedon | greek for "no glue", omitting a conjunction like "and" thereby creating either a sense of haste or a strong connection between what is being listed |
epistrophe | an after-stroke, a repetition of words at the end of a phrase |
tetracolon | series of four coordinate items, causes parallelism |
tautology | deliberate repetition of an idea for emphasis |
synchises | AB and AB where A is an adjective and b is a preposition, gives a sense of balance |
antithesis | the balanced pairing of opposites on either side of a coordinating conjunction A and not A |
chiasmus | AB and BA takes a pair of elements on one side of the coordinator and reverses it on the other, "all for one and one for all" |
polysyndeton | presence of more conjunctions than normal, makes a list seem more or greater |
oxymoron | 2 words placed side by side that are normally opposites |
pun | a word that is used in more than one sense simultaneously, one of them literal and one figurative |
zeugma | when one word in a sentence relates to or describes at least two other words in a sentence, but in different ways with different meanings. creates irony |