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Rhetorical Devices
for LATN 222
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Allegory | an extended metaphor in which the characters, places, and objects in a narrative carry figurative meaning |
| Alliteration | the repetition of an initial consonant sound |
| Ambiguity | a word, statement, or situation with two or more possible meanings |
| Amplification | expansion or exaggeration of one's point |
| Anacoluthon | a deliberate breaking off of a grammatical construction in the middle of a sentence |
| Anaphora | the repetition of the same word at the beginning of phrases or clauses |
| Antithesis | the statement of contraries |
| Apostrophe | turning away to address someone different |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds within neighbouring words |
| Asyndeton | the omission of connectives |
| Anthropomorphism | a form of personification in which human qualities are attributed to anything inhuman, usually a god, animal, object, or concept |
| Consonance | the repetition of similar consonant sounds |
| Chiasmus | interlocking word order in which the syntax forms an ABBA pattern |
| Conduplicatio | repetition of words in close succession |
| Dilemma | giving your opponent a choice between two alternatives where either will damage the case |
| Ellipsis | the omission of a word that is easily understood from the context, usually a verb |
| Elision | the omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry |
| Enjambment | continuation of sense and rhythmic movement from one line to the next; also called a run on line |
| Hendiadys | the expression of an idea through two nouns and a connective instead of one noun and a modifier |
| Homoioteleuton | a series of words with the same ending |
| Hyberbaton | a violent displacement of normal word order |
| Hyperbole | exaggerated statement |
| Imagery | elements of a poem that invoke any of the five senses to create a set of mental images; specifically, using vivid or figurative language to represent ideas, objects, or actions |
| Irony | implying a meaning opposite to the state one, or speaking in mocker |
| Isocolon | a series of clauses with an equal or nearly equal number of syllables and a corresponding structure (parallelism) |
| Litotes | an understatement formed by denying a contrary (eg. non numquam) |
| Metaphor | a comparison between two things without using "like" or "as" |
| Metonymy | a figure of speech whereby word or phrase that replaces the name of an object or concept to which it is related |
| Oxymoron | paradoxical statement |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of words to imitate the sounds they describe |
| Paradox | a situation or phrase that appears to be contradictory but which contains a truth worth considering |
| Personification | the endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities |
| Pleonasm | a pleasing fullness of expression |
| Polysyndeton | an abundance of connectives |
| Polyptoton | the use of the same word in different cases at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses |
| Praeteritio | "passing over" |
| Prosopopoeia | impersonation by a speaker |
| Paranomasia | play on words |
| Periodic Sentence | long complex sentence with a number of balanced parts in syntactical relation to each other |
| Reprehensio | self correction |
| Rhetorical question | a question posed by the speaker which does not expect an answer |
| Synesthesia | an attempt to fuse different senses by describing one in terms of another |
| Synecdoche | a part substitute for the whole |
| Synchesis | interlocked word order |
| Tricolon | series of three clauses |
| Tricolon Crescens | series of three clauses which grow longer |
| Zeugma | yoking of two phrases/clauses by a single word which has to be translated slightly differently in each instance |
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