RHETORIC Flashcards
Hyperbole..
Exaggeration for effect.
Litotes..
Understatement for effect.
Diminutio..
Self depreciation to win sympathy. ‘My opinion won’t count for much..’
‘Us and them’ technique..
“We shall..”
Synthetic personalisation..
Personally addressing audience.
Exemplum..
Short story or reference used to illustrate a point.
Rhetorical question..
A question which requires no answer.
Amplificato..
Elaborating an idea by saying it several times in different ways.
Anaphora..
Repetition of the beginning of a sentence.
Epiphora..
Repetition of the end of a sentence.
Tricolon..
“education, education, education”
Metaphor..
Something described as something that couldn’t actually be possible?
Personification..
Described as having human characteristics.
Similie..
something is ‘as’ something ‘as’ something..?