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Final Exam: Speech 1

Stylistic Devices of Poetry (and Rhetoric)

TermDefinition
Alliteration When words that are close together start with the same sound.
Anadiplosis When one repeats the concluding element of one phrase or clause as the introductory element of the next phrase or clause.
Anaphora Repetition of the same introductory elements for several adjacent phrases or clauses.
Antithesis Laying out a contrast in grammatically balanced form.
Assonance When words that are close together share the same vowel sounds.
Asyndeton Omitting a conjunction at the end of a list when it should be grammatically necessary.
Polysyndeton Using more conjunctions than is grammatically necessary.
Chiasmus When a writer mentions and repeats two ideas, but reverses the order the second time around, often with a twist in meaning.
Consonance When several words in proximity use the same finial consonant sounds, but different vowel sounds.
Epistrophe Repetition of the same concluding elements for several adjacent phrases or clauses.
Metonymy When a quality belonging to a person or thing is used to refer to the person or thing itself.
Rhetorical question A question asked without the intention of receiving an answer.
Rhyme When a syllable/syllables in words sound the same.
Symploce Anaphora + Epistrophe.
Synecdoche When a part is equated with the whole, or vice versa.
Zeugma The use of one word in two senses, one literal and one metaphorical.
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