Rhetoric (F-P) Flashcards

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Parallelism

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Ideas of equal importance are put into the same kind of grammatical structure.

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Polysyndeton

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Lots of conjunctions

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Periodic Sentence

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Moves the main clause to the end of the coordinate or subordinate phrase or clause

Non- Main sentence is at the beginning

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Metabasis

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A brief statement of what has been said and what will follow, transitional summery.

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Procatalepsis

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Anticipates an objection that might be raised by a reader and responds to it.

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Hypophora

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Asking one or more questions and then proceeding to answer them

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Irony

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Involves a statement whose hidden meaning is different from its surface or apparent meaning

not the outcome you expected

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Personification

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Giving an inanimate object or animal a human trait

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Onomatopoeia

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Use of words imitates sound it describes

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Hyperbole

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exaggerates conditions for emphasis

There is so much homework I will be climbing mount everest

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Metaphor

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An underlying meaning or representation

Sometimes has is in it

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Litotes

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By denying the opposite of the word which used

Hitting a pole didn’t do your car any good.

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Metonomy

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Another form of metaphor, the thing chosen for metaphorical image is closely associated

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