Rhetoric Flashcards
Accumlatio
Repetition in other words
example: How weary, flat, stale, and unprofitable!
Anadiplosis
Repetition of an end at the next beginning
example: for love’s sake-a word that loves all men-or for men’s sake-the authors of these women-or women’s sake
Anaphora
Repetition of beginnings
example: I am a woman. I am an educator. I am a baker.
Anastrophe
Arrangement by reversing the order of two words
example: -which by us shall blessed be
Antanaclasis
Repetition in different senses
example: put out the light and then put out the light
Anthimeria
Substitution of one part of speech for another
example: verbing weirds language
Antimetabole
Repetition of successive clauses in reverse grammatical order
example: But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace
Antithesis
Repetition of words or ideas in contrasting juxtaposition
example: Just without partiality, mighty without, contradiction, liberal without losing, wise without curiosity
Aporia
Asking and answering your own question
example: Why am I like this? Because it’s how I was raised.
Aposiopesis
Omission by breaking off suddenly in the middle of speech
example: He must be hanged, a damned death-
Asyndeton
Omission of conjunctions from clauses
example: silent, mournful, abandoned, broken
Auxesis
Arrangement by ascending importance
example: how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable!
Chiasmus
Repetition of ideas in inverted order
example: When the going gets tough, the tough get going
Diacope
Repetition with a word or two in between
example: a horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!
Richard loves Richard
Epanados
Repetition in the opposite order
example: fair is foul and foul is fair
(a form of chiasmus)
Epanalepsis
Repetition of the beginning at the end
example: in times like these, it helps to remember there have always been times like these
Epanorthosis
addition by correction
example: I am angry- no, furious-about this!
Epistrophe
Repetition of endings
example: Hi, Jasmine. It’s nice to see you, Jasmine! How are you, Jasmine?
Epizuexis
Repetition immediately
example: Fuck, fuck, fuck!
Erotema
Asking a question to affirm or deny a point
example: Why are you so stupid?
Hyperbaton
Arrangement by reversal of word or phrase order
example: Yoda-speak! when 900-years-old you reach, look as good you will not
Isocolon
Repetition of grammatical forms/structure
example: As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice it
Metonymy
Substitution of container for contained
example: throw the book at them (prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law - don’t actually throw a book)
Polysyndeton
Addition of conjunctions
example: swims or sinks or wades or creeps or flies
Synechdoche
Substitution of the part of the whole
example: I like your race. Take thy face hence
Symploce
Repetition of both beginning and ending
example: Another is wise, yet I am well. Another is virtuous, yet I am well.
(Anaphora & epistrophe get married)
Tmesis
Arrangement of one word into two
example: Unbe-fuckin-lievable
Zeugma
Omission of a verb from parallel clauses
example: You go this way, we that
