Rhetorical Devices - GHUM 200
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- Systrophe
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heaping together many definitions of one thing ("love is patient, love is kind, etc.)
LOGOS - Restrictio
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after making a general statement, one excepts a part (Blah, blah, blah, BUT...)
LOGOS - Encomium
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high praise and extolling of qualities
LOGOS - Antonomasia
- substitutes a descriptive phrase for a proper name for a quality associated (ie Casanova)
- Synecdoche
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part for a whole, whole for a part
"Lend me a hand" LOGOS - Metonymy
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Substituting an attribute of a thing
"Step on the gas!" LOGOS - Personification
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Giving human qualities to a non-human
LOGOS - Contraries
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represent disorder and confusion by looking at contradictions and contraries (like an oxymoron)
LOGOS - Simile
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Comparison using "like" or "as"
LOGOS - Metaphor
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Comparison saying something IS something else
LOGOS - Exergasia
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augments the same thought by repetition in many figures
(Hear the right, o Lord, attend unto my cry, give me ear to prayer)
LOGOS - Asteismus
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a word is used and reused by another with a twist
(banter)
LOGOS - Saracasmus
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Use of mockery, verbal taunts, or bitter irony
PATHOS - Epiplexis
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One asks a question to chide or reprehend
PATHOS - Obtestatio
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vehement supplication; lowering oneself
PATHOS - Comprobatio
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Approving and commending a virtue, especially in the hearers (making people feel good about themselves by raising your own status)
ETHOS - Parrhesia
- Respectful protest. Either to speak candidly or to ask forgiveness for so speaking.
- Paralipsis
- Figure where in protesting to withhold information, the person tells all anyway
- Grammar: parentheses and apposition
- insertion of a verbal unit that interrupts normal syntactical flow
- Grammar: asyndenton
- Removing conjunctions
- Grammar: polysyndeton
- Adding conjunctions
- Grammar: alliteration
- Repeating beginning consonant sounds
- Grammer: Assonance
- Repeating vowel sounds
- Grammar: anaphora
- Beginning a series of clauses with the same phrase or word