(FINISHED) Rhetorical Devices Flashcards

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# Click Here Interrupts the discussion or discourse and addresses directly a person or thing

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Apostrophe

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Antithesis

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Amplification

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Dirimens Copulatio

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Personification

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Antiphrasis

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Antanagoge

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Epanalepsis

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Epistrophe

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Anadiplosis

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Antimetabole

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Hyperbaton

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Aposiopesis

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Alliteration

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Polysyndeton

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Onomatopoeia

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A noun next to another noun - Henry Jameson, the boss of the operation... the notorious feast, the picnic

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A particular form of understatement generated by denying the opposite or contrary of the word which otherwise would be used - heatwaves are not rare in summer

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A short, informal reference to a famous person or event

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A reverse parallelism - where the second part of the sentence is balanced to the first part, but in reverse - so instead of unwillingly learned, the phrase would be learned unwillingly

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A single word or short phrase used to lend emphasis to the words immediately proximate to the adverb

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a type of metaphor which makes one part represent the whole

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An explicit reference to a particular meaning or to the various meanings of a word: "To make methanol for twenty-five cents a gallon is impossible; by "impossible" I mean currently beyond our technological capabilities."

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An adjective or adjective phrase qualifying a subject

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An extravagant implied metaphor using words in an alien way - I will speak daggers to her

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Arranging words, clauses or sentences in the order of increasing importance

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Attributes a skill to a person or event - is he smart? He's an Einstein

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another form of metaphor, very similar to synecdoche - the orders came direct from the white house

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Anticipating an objection and answering it within the same sentence

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Citing an example, using an illustrative story, either true or fictitious

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Combing anaphora and epistrophe

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Compares two things by speaking of one in terms of another

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Compares two things which are alike in several respects for the purpose of clarification

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Consists of a brief statement of what has been said and what will follow - it is basically a transitional summary - STEVENS

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consists of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases or clauses. Gives the effect of multiplicity - on his return, he received medals, honours, treasures, titles, fame

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Consists of raising one or more questions and then proceeding to answer them

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Deliberate exaggeration

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Detailing parts, causes, effects and consequences to make a point more forcibly

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Emphasises an idea by expressing it through several synonyms

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Expresses doubt about an idea or a conclusion

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Finishing a sentence with a different grammatical structure to what it began: "And then the deep rumble from the explosion began to shake the very bones of--no one had ever felt anything like it. Be careful with these two devices because improperly used they can--well, I have cautioned you enough."

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Interrupts the discussion or discourse and addresses directly a person or thing

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Binary opposition

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Asserts something by seemingly ignoring it "We will not bring up the matter of the budget deficit here"

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Involves repeating a word or expression while adding more detail to it, in order to emphasise what may have been passed over

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Juxaposed words which are contradictory

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Mentioning a balancing or opposing fact to prevent the argument from being one sided or unqualified

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Metaphorically represents an animal or an inanimate object as having human attributes

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One word irony, established by context - "Tiny", the fat man

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Placing a good point next to a fault in order to reduce its impact

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Quoting a wise saying

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Repeats the beginning word of a clause or sentence at the end

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Forms the counterpart to anaphora, repetition comes at the end of a sentence

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Repeats the last word of a sentence/ phrase at or very near the beginning of the next sentence. Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know,/ Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain . . . . --Philip Sidney

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Repetition of a word or phrase after an intervening word or phrase as a method of emphasis

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Repetition of one word - South America is lush, lush, lush

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Repetition of the same word at the beginning of successive phrases

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Reversing the order of repeated words or phrases to intensify the final formulation. "Ask not what America can do for you, but for what you can do for America"

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Several rhetorical devices involving departure from normal word order - "Such amaze"

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Several similar rhetorical devices combined

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Similar successive sounding vowels

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Stopping abruptly, leaving a sentence unfinished

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Understatement

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the recurrence of initial consonant sounds. The repetition can be juxtaposed (and then it is usually limited to two words): Yes, I have read that little bundle of pernicious prose, but I have no comment to make upon it.

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Use of a conjunction between each word, phrase or clause, adds multiplicity

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using more words than required to express an idea - we heard it with our own ears

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Words which sounds like a word

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Writing successive independent clauses, with coordinating conjunctions or no conjunctions: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. --Genesis 1:1-2 (KJV)

(FINISHED) Rhetorical Devices Flashcards

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