Rhetoric (F-P) Flashcards
Parallelism
Ideas of equal importance are put into the same kind of grammatical structure.
Polysyndeton
Lots of conjunctions
Periodic Sentence
Moves the main clause to the end of the coordinate or subordinate phrase or clause
Non- Main sentence is at the beginning
Metabasis
A brief statement of what has been said and what will follow, transitional summery.
Procatalepsis
Anticipates an objection that might be raised by a reader and responds to it.
Hypophora
Asking one or more questions and then proceeding to answer them
Irony
Involves a statement whose hidden meaning is different from its surface or apparent meaning
not the outcome you expected
Personification
Giving an inanimate object or animal a human trait
Onomatopoeia
Use of words imitates sound it describes
Hyperbole
exaggerates conditions for emphasis
There is so much homework I will be climbing mount everest
Metaphor
An underlying meaning or representation
Sometimes has is in it
Litotes
By denying the opposite of the word which used
Hitting a pole didn’t do your car any good.
Metonomy
Another form of metaphor, the thing chosen for metaphorical image is closely associated