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Fancy Rhetorical Dev
AP Language and Composition Fancy words for rhetorical devices.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anadiplosis | Technique in which the concluding word of a sentence or clause becomes the first word of the next sentence or clause. |
| Epanalepsis | Opening and closing a sentence with the same word or phrase. |
| Antimetabole | Repeating words in reverse order |
| Chiasmus | Reverse gramatical elements |
| Ellipsis | Omission of 1 or more words- commonly words such as and or then |
| Asyndeton | Omission of conjuction before last item in a series |
| Anaphora | Repetition of the first word or phrase |
| Extended Parallelism | Repetition of words or grammatical elements to achieve cumulative force and rhythm. |
| Periodic Sentence | Writer builds suspense by beginning with subordinate clauses. |
| Cumulative or Loose Sentence | Subordinate clauses come at the end |
| Interrupted Sentence | Subordinate elements come in the middle of the sentence |
| Balanced Sentence | One in which two parallel elements are set off against eachother like equal weights on a scale. Both parts of the sentence have the same form. |