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rhetorical terms
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| hyperbole | exaggeration for emphasis |
| hendiadys | use of 2 words connected by a conjungtion |
| euphemism | substitution of an agreeable or at least non offensive expression |
| hysteron-proteron | inversion of the natural sequence of events |
| irony | expression of something which is contrary to intended meaning |
| litotes | understatement, for intensification, by denying the contrary of the thing being affirmed |
| metaphor | comparison |
| metonymy | substitution of one word for another which it suggests |
| nosism | the royal WE |
| onomatopeia | use of words to imitate natural sounds |
| oxymoron | apparent paradox achieved by the juxtaposition of words which seem to contradict one another |
| pleonasm | use of superfluous words, redundant |
| polysyndeton | repeating conjunctions in a series of words |
| preterition | saying something by stating you won't mention it |
| similie | comparison using like or as |
| rhetorical question | asked to lead/persuade someone |
| syllepsis | use of word w/ 2 others, which each of which is understood differently |
| symmetry | balanced |
| synedoche | use of part of object to represent whole |
| tmesis | seperation of compound word by inverting another word |
| triad | group of 3 |
| zeugma | 2 different words lined to a verb or an adj which is strictly appropriate to only one of them |
| alliteration | serious of words starting with the same letter |
| anadiplosis | double back words, at the end of clause used in the next begginning |
| anaphora | repeating a word for emphasis at the beginning of continued phrases |
| anastrophe | catastrophe of normal word order |
| antistrophe | repitition of same word or phrase at the end of a successive clause |
| aporia | expression of doubt by which a speaker appears uncertain |
| aposiopesis | form of ellipse by which a speaker comes to aburpt halt |
| asyndeton | lack of conjunctions between coordinate phrases |
| chiasmus | 2 corresponding pairs arranged not in parallels but in inverted order |
| climax | arrangement of words for ascending power |