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eng.rhetoricaldevice
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| allegory | a narrative in which the characters, behavior, and even the setting demonstrate multiple levels of meaning and signficance. allegory is often a universal symbol or personified abstraction [cupid-chubby angel with bow and arrows] |
| anaphora | the regular repetition of the same wrods or phrases at the beginning of a successive phrases of clauses. i myself will try, i myself will do this, i myself with succeed |
| antithesis | the juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words. to err is human, to forgive divine. |
| aphorism | a concise statement designed to make a point or illutrate a commonly held belief. spare the rod and spoil the child. |
| apostrophe | an address or invocation to something inanimate--such as when the slave FredDouglass exclaims as he looks upon the ships in the chesapeake bay: i would pour out my soul's complaint, in my rude way, with an apostrophe to the moving multitude of ships |
| assonance | the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds. she sElls sea shElls by the sEa shore. |
| asyndeton | a synatical structure in which conjuctions are omitted in a series, usually producing more rapid prose. "veni, vidi, vici" |
| ethos | authority. the appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker writer or narrator |
| logos | logic |
| pathos | emotion |
| amplication | repetition of a word or expression while adding more detail to it, in order to emphasize. after my ten days of rigorous dieting, i saw visions of ice cream--moutains of lucious, creamy ice cream, dripping with gooey syrup and calories |
| chiasmus | a figure of speech and generally a syntaical structure wherein the order ofth terms in the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in the second. he thinks i am but a fool. a food, perhaps i am. |
| climax | consists of arranging words, clauses in the order of increasing importance, weight or emphasis. parallelism. Always begin with a point or proof substantial enough to generate interest, and then continue with ideas of increasing importance. |
| colloquial | term identifying the diction of the ordinary folks. y'all. pop. soda. |
| epithet | adjective qualifying a subject by naming a key or important characteristic of subject, as in laughing happiness,sneering contempt, untroubled sleep. Be fresh, seek striking images,connotative value. |
| eponym | substitutes for a particular attribute and name of a famous person recognized for that attribute. boarderline cliche. An earthworm is the Hercules of the soil. |
| expletive | word or phrase that interupts normal syntax. used to emphaszie the words around it. But the lake was not, in fact, drained before April. |
| litote | figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement. "not bad" |
| metonymy | antoehr form of a metaphor. an attribute or commonly associated feature is used to name or designate somehting. "the orders came from the white house" |
| onomatopoeia | buzz. |
| oxymoron | combines 2 apparently contradictory elements. "wise fool. baggy tights. deafening silence." |
| paradox | fight for peace |
| parallellism | recurrent syntactical similarity |
| parenthesis | creates the effect of extemporaneity and immediacy: you are relating some fact when suddenly something very important arises, or else you cannot resist an instant comment |
| synecdoche | a type of metaphor in which the part stands for the whole. a part signifies the whole "50 masts" representing 50 ships. |
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