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| Reversing the order of repeated words or phrases to intensify the final formulation, to present alternatives, or to show contrast |
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| establishes a clear, contrasting relationship between tow ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing them, often in parallel structure. Human beings are inveterate systematizers and categorizers, so the mind has a natural love for antitheses, which creates a definite and systematice relationship between ideas |
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| might be called "reverse parallelism" since the second part of a grammatical construction is balance or paralleled by the first part, only in reverse order. |
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| repeats the last word of one phrase, clause, or 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 |
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| repeats the last word of one phrase, clause, or sentence at or very near the beginning of the next |
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| repeats the beginning word of a clause or sentence at the end. |
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| a sorites is a specifif kind of polysyllogism in which the predicate of each proposition is the subject of the next premise |
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| when the repeated word gains further definition or detail |
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| also called antistrophe, forms the counterpart to anaphora, because the repetition of the same word or words comes at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences |
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| repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc. |
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| a particular form of understatement, is generated by denying the opposite or contray of the word which otherwise would be used. |
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| the counterpart of understatement, deliberately exaggerates conditions for emphasis or effect |
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| a situation, literary technique, or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity, discordance, or unintended connection with truth |
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| a statement that contradicts itself |
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| a paradox reduced to two words, usually in an adjective-noun or adverb-adjective realtionship, and is used for effect, complexity, emphasis, or wit |
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| a figure of speech involving an inversion of a language's ordinary order of words |
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| a common pattern theme motif in literature, or a figure of speech in which words are used in a sense different from their literal meaning |
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| is a type of metaphor in which the stands for the whole |
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| a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name |
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| a figure of speech in which an espression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a smiliartiy |
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| is the used of words whose pronunciation imitates the sound the word describes |
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| similar vowel sounds repeated in successive or prizimate words containing different consonants |
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| is the recurrence of initial consonant sounds |
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| is a short, informal reference to a famous person or event |
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| metaphorically represents an animal or inanimate object as having human attributes |
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| includes several similar rhetorical devices, all involving a grammatically correct linkage of two or more parts of speech by another part of speech. |
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| differes from hypophora is that it is not answered by the writer, because its answer is obvious or obviously desired, and usually just a yes or no |
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| consists of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses |
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| Name calling, to debase a person or a thing |
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| to belittle, use a degrading nickname |
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| term used to characterize a person or thing |
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| term for asking questions to rebuke or reproach rather than to elicit answers |
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| which some absent or nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding |
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| the inappropriate use of one word for another, or an extreme, strained, or mixed metaphor, often used deliberately |
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| repetition of a word or phrase |
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| The substitution of a title or epithet for a proper name |
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| The repetition of conjunctions in close succession for rhetorical effect |
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| A sentence in which the main clause or its predicate is withheld until the end |
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| An independent clause followed by a series of subordinate constructions |
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| synonymous that contrast two objects |
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| a sentence that advises or calls people to action |
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| stylistic device characterized by the repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession, |
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