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Rhetorical Terms

TermDefinition
Asyndeton food, happy, sad, dad, happy
Polysyndeton happy and sad and mad and had and bad
Parallelism quickly and happily, swiftly and throughly
Antithesis one small stem for man one leap for mankind
Anaphora a bag, a bob, a bib
Epistrophe i like cats, fat cats, skinny cats, big cats, tiny cats
Rhetorical question yes or no question
Simile compare two things that resemble each other in at least one way
Metaphor compare two things not like something else but is saying that it is something else
Personification human characteristics to non-humans
understatement makes something less important than it is
hyperbole emphasis, extreme exaggeration
allusion reference to famous actors, art
Alliteration swiftly and slowly sally sang sunshine
Apostrophe talks to something not real like it is real
Paradox works hard at being lazy
Situational irony total surprise
dramatic irony the reader knew something a character didn't
verbal irony sarcastic
tone authors attitude
aporia My parents think I'm doing good in stem. Are they right. lets look at parent connect
ethos ethical appeal
pathos emotional appeal
logos logical appeal
Created by: charmipatel14
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