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Rhetorical-APLang

Thetorical devices

QuestionAnswer
Alliteration Repitition of same sound beggining several words in sequence
allusion brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art
anaphora repition of words in the reverse order
antithesis opposition or contrast, of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction
archaic diction old-fashioned or outdated choice of words
cumulative sentence sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence, then builds and ads on
hortative sentence sentence that exhorts, advices, calls to action
imperitive sentence sentence used to command enjoin, implore, or entreat
inversion inverted order of words in a sentnce(variation of the sunject-verb object order)
juxtoposition placement of tow things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
metaphor figure of speech that says one thing is another in order to explain by comparison
metonymy using a single feature to represent the whole
oxymoron paradoxical juxtoposition of words that seem to contradict one another
parallelism similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
periodic sentence sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end
personification attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea
rhetorical question figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer
zuegma use of tow different words in a gramatically similar way but producing different, often incongruous, meanings
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