Rehetoricals 4.2-4.4 Flashcards

(7 cards)

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Spoonerism

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An error in speech or deliberate play on words “Duke-lerome”

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Mondegreen

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A mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of them sounding the same “Starbucks lovers”

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Enumeration

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A subject is divided into things such as a list of causes, effects, problems, solution to mention step by step

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Epanalepsis

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Provide emphasis by adding the same word at the beginning and end of a sentence “Nothing is worse than doing nothing”

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Metalepsis

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Reference to something by means of something remotely related through farfetched relationships “He is such a lead foot”

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Conundrum

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Question asked for amusement, typically one with a pun in the answer “When is a door not a door- ajar!”

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Aesthetic

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Pertaining to the sense of perception and capable of feeling perception. It is the study of sensory experience

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