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Terms
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- aetiology
- explanation of the origin of a term or practice (where Apollo's tree came from)
- antithesis
- opposition or contrast of words (covetous, generous)
- aposiopesis
- breaking off before teh close of the sentence
- asyndeton
- omission of conjunctions
- litotes
- understatement (often double negative)
- metonymy
- use of one thing to signify another (I sing of amrs and of a man)
- pathetic fallacy
- landscape mirrors the emotion of character
- praeteritio
- apparent omission by why a speaker pretends to pass by what he really emphasizes
- recusatio
- formal refusal to write on something or in a certain style (reason not meant seriously)
- synecdoche
- use of a part for the whole
- transferred epithet
- epithet transferred from word it strictly belongs to