Rhetorical Devices Flashcards

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Rhetorical question

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Question that doesn’t get answered

” are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love “

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Allusion

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Reference to something biblical , historical , mythology, ect

“Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss “
- biblical

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Parallelism

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Repeated words

” we have petitioned, we have remonstrated, we have supplicated, we have prostrated “

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Antithesis

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Comparing things

” give me liberty or give me death “ ( liberty and death )

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