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AP Chapter 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Exordium | Draws listeners into the speech, the speaker would introduce the subject at hand and include material that would make the audience both attentive and receptive to the argument |
| Narration | Offer background material on the case at hand |
| Partition | Divide the case and make clear what part the speaker was going to adress, which parts the speaker would not take up, and what order would be followed in the development |
| Confirmation | Offer points to substantiate the argument and provide reasons, details, illustrations, and examples in suport of these points |
| Refutation | Would consider possible objections to the argument or its supporting points and try to counter these objections |
| Peroration | Draw together the entire argument and include material dsigned to compel the audience to think or act in a way consonant with the central argument |
| Scheme | Any artful variation from from the typical arrangement of words in a sentence |
| Trope | Any artful variation from the typical or expected way a word or idea is expressed |
| Alliteration | Repitition of consonant counds at the beggining or in the middle of two or more adjacent words |
| Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two or more adjacent words |
| Anaphora | Repetition of the same group of words at the beginning of successive clauses |
| Epistrophe | repitition of the same group of words at the end of successive clauses |
| Anadiplosis | Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause |
| Climax | Repetition of words, phraases, or clauses in order of incleasing numbers of importance |
| Synecdoche | A part of something is used to refer to the whole |
| Metonymy | An entity is referred to by one of its attributes |
| Personification | Inanimate objects are given human characteristics |
| Periphrasis | A descriptive word or phrase is used to refer to a proper name |
| Anthimeria | One part of speech, usually a verb, substitutes for another, usually a noun |
| Onamatopoeia | Sounds of the words used are related to their meaning |
| Hyperbole | Overstatement |
| Litotes | Understatement |
| Irony | Words are meant to convey the opposite of their literal meaning |
| Oxymoron | Words that have apparently contradictory meanings are placed near each other |
| Rhetorical question | A question designed not to secure an answer but to move the developmentof an idea forward and suggest a point |
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