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| rhetoric | skillful, effective use of language
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| rhetorical strategies | specific patterns and structures that writers employ to express themselves more effectively and memorably
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| does rhetoric include figures of speech or sound devices? | no
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| tricolon | series of of three coordinate items. series of three provide an emotionally satisfying completeness.
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| "we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground" | tricolon because it's 3
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| anaphora | beginning each item with the same words; repetition at the beginning of sucessive phrases or clauses
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| asyntedon | greek for "no glue", omitting a conjunction like "and" thereby creating either a sense of haste or a strong connection between what is being listed
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| epistrophe | an after-stroke, a repetition of words at the end of a phrase
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| tetracolon | series of four coordinate items, causes parallelism
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| tautology | deliberate repetition of an idea for emphasis
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| synchises | AB and AB where A is an adjective and b is a preposition, gives a sense of balance
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| antithesis | the balanced pairing of opposites on either side of a coordinating conjunction A and not A
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| chiasmus | AB and BA takes a pair of elements on one side of the coordinator and reverses it on the other, "all for one and one for all"
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| polysyndeton | presence of more conjunctions than normal, makes a list seem more or greater
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| oxymoron | 2 words placed side by side that are normally opposites
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| pun | a word that is used in more than one sense simultaneously, one of them literal and one figurative
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| zeugma | when one word in a sentence relates to or describes at least two other words in a sentence, but in different ways with different meanings. creates irony
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