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| Logic, uses facts, statistics, data, reasoning, and common sense. |
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| Ethics, appeals to character of writer or the persona through history, background and reputation |
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| Appeals to the emotions or interests of the reader. |
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recurrent syntactical similarity. several parts of a sentence or several sentence are expressed similarly to show that the ideas in the parts or sentences are equal in importance. Adds balance, rhythm and clarity to the sentence
ex: He liked to eat watermelon and to avoid grapefruit. |
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establishes a clear, contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing them, often in parallel structure. creates a definite and systematic relationship between ideas.
ex: To err is human; to forgive, divine. |
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includes several rhetorical devices such as departure from normal word order. One device, a form of inversion, might be called delayed epithet, since the adjective follows the noun. Amplifies the adjective.
She had a personality indescribable. |
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a final form of hyperbaton, consists of a word,phrase, or whole sentence inserted as an aside in the middle of another sentence.
ex. Every time i try to think of a good example of parenthesis, i think and think but -- you guessed it -- nothing happens. |
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a noun or noun substitute placed next to (in apposition to ) another noun to be described or defined by the appositive
ex. a notorious annual feast, the picnic was well attended. |
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the omission of a word or short phrase easily understood in context.
ex. friendly fire, isn't. |
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consists of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. In a list of items, it gives the effect of unpremeditated multiplicity, of an extemporaneous rather than a labored account.
ex. they spent the day wondering, searching, thinking, understanding. |
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the recurrence of initial consonant sounds. the repetition can be juxtaposed
ex. done well, this rhetorical device is a satisfying sensation. |
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similar vowel sounds repeated in successive or proximate words containing different consonants.
ex. a city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. |
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the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences, commonly in conjunction with climax and with parallelism
ex. to think on death it is a misery, to think on life it is a vanity, to think on the world verily it is, to think that here man hath no perfect bliss. |
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forms the counterpart of the anaphora, because the repetition of the same word or words comes at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences.
ex. Where affections bear rule, there reason is subdued, honesty is subdued, good will is subdued, and all things else that withstand evil, forever are subdued. |
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repeats the beginning word of a clause or sentence at the end.
ex. you may say the theory is mistaken, but if the machine works, one should not bother with theory. |
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repeats the last word of one phrase, clause, 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.
ex. pleasure might cause her to read, reading might make her know, knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain. |
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consists of arranging words, clauses, or sentences in the order of increasing importance, weight, or emphasis.
ex. The ground began to heave. Windows rattled; then they broke. Objets started falling from shelves. Water heaters fell from their pedestals, tearing out their plumbing. Outside, the road began to break up. Water mains and gas lines were wrenched apart, causing flooding and danger of explosion. Office buildings began cracking; soon twenty, thirty, forty stories of concrete were diving at the helpless pedestrians panicking below. |
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a figure of emphasis in which the words in one phrase or clause are replicated, exactly or closely,in reverse grammatical order in the next phrase or clause; an inverted order of repeated words in adjacent phrases or clauses (AB-BA)
ex. The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. |
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the repetition of words derived from the same root but with different endings.
ex. so long lives this, and gives life to thee |
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a comparison made by referring to one thing as another.
ex. life is a beach. |
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An explicit comparison, often (but not necessarily) employing like or as.
ex. my love is like a red, red rose. |
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a whole is represented by naming one of its parts (genus named for species) or vice versa
ex. "he shall think differently when he feels the point of my steel!" |
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reference to something or someone by naming one of its attributes
ex. The pen is mightier than the sword. |
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a pun is a play on words that sound the same but have different meanings.
ex. our social studies teacher says that the globe means the world to her |
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substitution of one part of speech for another (such as a noun used as a verb)
ex. I've been Republicanized all i care to be all this election year |
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the substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name as a shorthand to stand for qualities associated with it.
ex. He was no Romeo; but then again, she was no Juliet |
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Reference to abstractions or inanimate objects as though they had human qualities or abilities.
ex. the insatiable hunger for imagination preys upon human life. |
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Rhetorical exaggeration. Hyperbole is often accomplished via comparisons, similes, and metaphors.
ex. ive told you a million times not to exaggerate! |
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Deliberate understatement, especially when expressing a thought by denying its opposition.
ex. Running a marathon in two hours is no small accomplishment. |
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usually defines as any question asked for a purpose tan to obtain the information the question asks.
ex. why are you so stupid? |
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| Speaking in such a way as to imply the contrary of what one says, often for the purpose of derision, mockery, or jest. |
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using or inventing a word whose sound imitates that which it names (the union of phonetics and semantics)
ex. the buzzing of innumerable bees |
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placing two ordinarily opposing terms adjacent to one another a compressed paradox.
ex. the sounds of silence. |
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