RHETORIC Flashcards

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Hyperbole..

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Exaggeration for effect.

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Litotes..

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Understatement for effect.

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Diminutio..

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Self depreciation to win sympathy. ‘My opinion won’t count for much..’

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‘Us and them’ technique..

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“We shall..”

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Synthetic personalisation..

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Personally addressing audience.

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Exemplum..

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Short story or reference used to illustrate a point.

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Rhetorical question..

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A question which requires no answer.

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Amplificato..

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Elaborating an idea by saying it several times in different ways.

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Anaphora..

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Repetition of the beginning of a sentence.

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Epiphora..

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Repetition of the end of a sentence.

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Tricolon..

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“education, education, education”

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Metaphor..

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Something described as something that couldn’t actually be possible?

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Personification..

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Described as having human characteristics.

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Similie..

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something is ‘as’ something ‘as’ something..?

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