Rehetoricals 4.2-4.4 Flashcards
(7 cards)
Spoonerism
An error in speech or deliberate play on words “Duke-lerome”
Mondegreen
A mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of them sounding the same “Starbucks lovers”
Enumeration
A subject is divided into things such as a list of causes, effects, problems, solution to mention step by step
Epanalepsis
Provide emphasis by adding the same word at the beginning and end of a sentence “Nothing is worse than doing nothing”
Metalepsis
Reference to something by means of something remotely related through farfetched relationships “He is such a lead foot”
Conundrum
Question asked for amusement, typically one with a pun in the answer “When is a door not a door- ajar!”
Aesthetic
Pertaining to the sense of perception and capable of feeling perception. It is the study of sensory experience