Rhetorical terms: Fason's AP class: Advanced List: List # 3
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Aesthetic | show 🗑
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Anadiplosis | show 🗑
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Anaphora | show 🗑
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show | An inversion of the natural or usual word order. This deviation can emphasize a point or it can just sound awkward. Ex: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
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show | The repetition of a word in two different senses. Ex: "Your argument is sound, nothing but sound."
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show | The substitution of one part of speech for another.
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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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Bildungsroman | show 🗑
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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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Digression | show 🗑
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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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show | Poem or prose lamenting the death of a particular person.
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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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Epiphany | show 🗑
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Epistolary | show 🗑
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Epistrophe | show 🗑
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Foil | show 🗑
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Hamartia | show 🗑
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In medias res | show 🗑
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show | The use of angry and insulting language in satirical writing.
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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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show | Words, phrases, or a general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish.
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Periodic sentence | show 🗑
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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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Polysyndeton | show 🗑
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Subjective | show 🗑
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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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show | It is when one sensory experience is describes in terms of another sensory experince to create an effective yet mixed combination of senses. Ex.: the buzz of a fly is described: "With blue, uncertain stumbling buzz"
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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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