Ms. Hamon Rhetorical Terms List 5
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| Loose Sentence | A sentence that is grammatically complete (completes the main thought) quickly at the beginning, and then continues to add details.
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| Periodic Sentence | A sentence that, no matter how long, is not grammatically complete until the end.
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| Caesura | A pause, metrical or rhetorical, occurring somewhere in a line of poetry.
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| Metonymy | Metonymy refers to the substitution of one thing for another closely identified thing.
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| Monologue | An extended speech by one person.
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| Mood | The emotions intended to be felt by the reader of a literary work.
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| Tone | The attitude of a writer toward his/her subject.
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| Motif | A usually recurring salient thematic element, especially a dominant or central theme.
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| Onomatopoeia | Onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the sound it represents.
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| Persona | Literally a mask. The narrator in a non first-person novel. In a third person novel, even though the author isn’t a character, you get some idea of the author’s personality. However, it isn’t really the author’s personality because the author is manipulat
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| Paradox | Paradox reveals a kind of truth that at first seems contradictory.
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| Parody | A work of art in which the style of author is imitated for comic effect or ridicule.
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| Personification | The attribution of human characteristics to nonhuman things.
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| Aphorism | Aphorism is a brief saying embodying a moral, a concise statement of a principle or precept given in pointed words.
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| Rhetoric | The art of communication, especially persuasive communication.
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