Rhetorical Strategies
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- alliteration
- the repetition of the same starting sound in several words of a sentence
- epistrophe
- repetition at the ends of clauses and sentences
- ethos
- credibility
- allusion
- references to historical, mythical, or literary things
- word choice
- choosing the most specific or apporpiate words
- polysyndenton
- many conjuctions
- logos
- logical arguements, facts, evidence
- concession
- admitting the other side is right
- understatement
- underplaying a point to emphasize it even more
- imagery
- appeals to any of the five senses
- detail
- specifies somthing
- metaphor
- a symbol; sometimes overlaps with imagery
- anaphora
- repetition at the begginning of clauses and sentences
- pathos
- appeal to emotion
- asyndenton
- no conjuctions