Rhetorical Terms 2
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- repetition at the beginning of clauses
- anaphora
- repitition of last words of previous clause at the beginning of the next
- anadiplosis
- word order reversal
- antimetabole
- omission of conjunctions
- asyndeton
- repetition at the end of clauses
- epistrophe
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symbol used to represent a whole
give an example - metonymy (ex. crown-monarch)
- similar clause structure
- parallelism
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using part of a subject for the whole
give an example - synecdoche (ex. hand-sailor)
- use of a word to govern 2 words differently
- zeugma
- use of several conjunctions to emphasize a point
- polysyndeton
- the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas, often in parallel structure
- antithesis (ex. Place your virtues on a pedastel; put your vices under a rock)
- the subsitution of one part of speech for another
- antihimeria (ex. the poet says we milestone our lives.)
- a sentence that adds modifying elements after the subject, verb, and complement
- loose/cumulative sentence
- sentence with modifying elements before the verb/complement
- periodic sentence
- unassociated ideas, words, or phrases placed next to each other to create surprise, wit, or humor
- juxtaposition