Rhetorical terms: Fason's AP class: Advanced List: List # 3
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| Aesthetic | show 🗑
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| show | Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next clause. Ex: "the crime was common, common be the pain."
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| Anaphora | show 🗑
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| Anastrophe | show 🗑
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| Antanaclasis | show 🗑
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| Anthimeria | show 🗑
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| show | The protagonist of a literay work who does not embody the traditional qualities of a hero.
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| show | The repetition of words in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order. Ex: "One should eat to live, not live to eat."
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| show | The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words or phrases.
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| Aphorism | show 🗑
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| show | Most commonly used as a synonym of the word defense.
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| show | The practice of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. In a list, it gives a more extemporaneous effect and suggest the list may be incomplete. Ex: "He was brave, fearless, afraid of nothing."
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| show | To sidestep or evade the real problem, leaving the real question unanswered.
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| show | A novel or story whose theme is the moral or psychological growth of the main character.
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| show | The works of an author that have been accepted as authentic.
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| Carpe Diem | show 🗑
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| Chiasmus | show 🗑
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| show | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising anlaogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. It displays intellectual cleverness due ot the unusual comparison being made.
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| show | A sentence that withholds its main idea until the end. Ex.: "Just as he bent to tie his show, a car hit him."
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| show | Intended for teaching or to teach a moral lesson
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| show | Movement away from the main sotry or theme of a peice of writing.
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| show | A formal discussion of a subject.
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| Doppelganger | show 🗑
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| show | An imaginary place where people live dehumanized, often fearful lives.
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| Elegy | show 🗑
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| show | The repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause. Ex.: "Blood hath bought blood, and blows have answered blows."
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| Epideictic | show 🗑
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| show | A sudden or intuitive insight or perception into the reality or essential meaning of something usually brought on by a simple or common occurrence or experience.
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| Epistolary | show 🗑
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| show | The repetition of a word or words as the end of two ormore successive verses, clauses, or sentences.
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| show | "In the middle of"- refers to opening a sotry in the middle of the action, requiring filling in past details by exposition or flashback.
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| Invective | show 🗑
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| Isocolon | show 🗑
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| show | The deliberate use of understatement in which the negative of the contrary is used to achieve emphasis and intensity. Ex.: "She is not a bad cook."
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| Loose Sentence | show 🗑
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| show | A figure of speech that uses the name of one thing to name or designate something. Ex.: "The White House said that..."
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| Motif | show 🗑
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| show | The use of words that are alike in sound but diferent in meaning. A pun.
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| Pedantic | show 🗑
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| show | A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. It is preceeded by a dependent clause. It is used to add emphasis and structural variety.
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| show | A repetition of words derived from the same root. Ex: "But in this desert country, they may see the land being rendered useless by overuse."
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| show | It refers to writing that expresses the autheor's beliefs in and attitudes toward a particular subject.
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| show | The use of a word understood differently in relation to two or more other words, which is modifies or governs. Ex.: "the ink, like our pig, keeps running out of the pen."
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| show | A form of deduction. It is extrmely subtle, sophisticated, or deceptive argument.
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| Synesthesia | show 🗑
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| show | A figure of speech in which a part signifies the whole. Ex.: "head of cattle." "Hands on deck."
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| show | The use of a word in a figurative sense iwth a decided change or extension in its literal meaning.
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| show | An imaginary place of ideal perfection.
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| show | Grammatically correct linkage of one subject with two or more verbs or a verb with two or more direct objects. The linkage shows a relationship between ides more clearly. Ex.: "Bob exceeded at sports; Jim at academics; Mark at eating."
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