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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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Antihero   show
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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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Apostrophe   show
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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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Begging the question   show
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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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Semantics   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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