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03/15/2011

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Antimetabole
Definition
Reversing the order of repeated words or phrases to intensify the final formulation, to present alternatives, or to show contrast
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Antitheses
Definition
establishes a clear, contrasting relationship between tow ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing them, often in parallel structure. Human beings are inveterate systematizers and categorizers, so the mind has a natural love for antitheses, which creates a definite and systematice relationship between ideas
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Chiasmus
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might be called "reverse parallelism" since the second part of a grammatical construction is balance or paralleled by the first part, only in reverse order.
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Anadiplosis-
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repeats the last word of one phrase, clause, or sentence at or very near the beginning of the next. it can be generated in series for the sake of beauty or to give a sense of logical progression
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Anadiplosis
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repeats the last word of one phrase, clause, or sentence at or very near the beginning of the next
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Epanalepsis
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repeats the beginning word of a clause or sentence at the end.
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Gradatio
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a sorites is a specifif kind of polysyllogism in which the predicate of each proposition is the subject of the next premise
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Anaphora
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when the repeated word gains further definition or detail
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Epistrophe
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also called antistrophe, forms the counterpart to anaphora, because the repetition of the same word or words comes at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences
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Epophora
Definition
repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc.
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Litotes
Definition
a particular form of understatement, is generated by denying the opposite or contray of the word which otherwise would be used.
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Hyperbole
Definition
the counterpart of understatement, deliberately exaggerates conditions for emphasis or effect
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Irony
Definition
a situation, literary technique, or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity, discordance, or unintended connection with truth
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paradox
Definition
a statement that contradicts itself
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Oxymoron
Definition
a paradox reduced to two words, usually in an adjective-noun or adverb-adjective realtionship, and is used for effect, complexity, emphasis, or wit
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Anastrophe-
Definition
a figure of speech involving an inversion of a language's ordinary order of words
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tropes
Definition
a common pattern theme motif in literature, or a figure of speech in which words are used in a sense different from their literal meaning
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Synecdoche (tropes)
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is a type of metaphor in which the stands for the whole
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Metonomy
Definition
a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name
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metaphor
Definition
a figure of speech in which an espression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a smiliartiy
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onomatipoeia
Definition
is the used of words whose pronunciation imitates the sound the word describes
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assonance
Definition
similar vowel sounds repeated in successive or prizimate words containing different consonants
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alliteration
Definition
is the recurrence of initial consonant sounds
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allusion
Definition
is a short, informal reference to a famous person or event
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personification
Definition
metaphorically represents an animal or inanimate object as having human attributes
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Zeugma
Definition
includes several similar rhetorical devices, all involving a grammatically correct linkage of two or more parts of speech by another part of speech.
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Rhetorical question
Definition
differes from hypophora is that it is not answered by the writer, because its answer is obvious or obviously desired, and usually just a yes or no
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asyndeton
Definition
consists of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses
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Tapinosis
Definition
Name calling, to debase a person or a thing
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Meiosis
Definition
to belittle, use a degrading nickname
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Epithet
Definition
term used to characterize a person or thing
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synathroesmus
Definition
piling up of adjectives
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Epiplexis
Definition
term for asking questions to rebuke or reproach rather than to elicit answers
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apostrophe
Definition
which some absent or nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding
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catachresis
Definition
the inappropriate use of one word for another, or an extreme, strained, or mixed metaphor, often used deliberately
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epimone
Definition
repetition of a word or phrase
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antonomasia
Definition
The substitution of a title or epithet for a proper name
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paronomasia
Definition
 word play
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polysyndeton
Definition
The repetition of conjunctions in close succession for rhetorical effect
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periodic sentence
Definition
A sentence in which the main clause or its predicate is withheld until the end
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cumulative sentence
Definition
An independent clause followed by a series of subordinate constructions
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Synesthesia
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Juxtapostion
Definition
synonymous that contrast two objects
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Hortative sentence
Definition
a sentence that advises or calls people to action
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Consonance
Definition
stylistic device characterized by the repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession,
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