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Rhetorical Devices Flashcards

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Catharsis

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Purification/relieving of emotions especially pity or fear that brings spiritual renewal or release

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Anagnorisis

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Moment in play or work when a character makes a critical discovery (of true nature of situation or character)

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Mimesis

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Perfection and imitation of nature into literature and art; art imitating life

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Techne

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A skill for communicating effectively and coherent system for analyzing and classifying speeches; rhetoric in general is Techne b/c rhetorical devices such as syntax and selective diction are used by authors to emphasize or illustrate the point they are making in their writing

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Hamartia

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Tragic flaw: fatal flaw

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Hubris

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Excessive pride: overestimation of abilities; foolish boldness

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Tragedy

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Deals with affairs of state such as war (as opposed to comedy, which often deals with love); characterized by the ultimate goal being catharsis

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Heteroglossia

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Coexistence of distinct varieties within a single language; juxtaposition of one or more kinda of speech in order to bring about a contradiction and conflict in belief systems

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Episteme

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Knowledge(factual; as opposed to belief or opinion)

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Parallelism

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Similarity of structure in pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses

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Isocolon

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Succession of clauses or sentences of approximately equal length and corresponding structure
“I came, I saw, I conquered”

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Antithesis

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Juxtaposition of contrasting ideas often parallel in structure

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Anastrophe

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Inversion of natural or usual word order

“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”

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Parenthesis

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Insertion of some verbal unit that interrupts the normal syntactical flood sentence
“Her favorite flowers-roses, calla lilies and gardenias-covered her room”

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Apposition

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Placing side by side two coordinate elements, the second which serves as an explanation or modification of the first
“All there was to eat at the dinner table was pepperoni, her favorite”

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Ellipsis

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Deliberate omission of word or words which are readily implied by the context

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Asyndeton

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Deliberate omission of conjugations

“I saw, I came, I conquered”

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Polysyndeton

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Deliberate use of many conjunctions

Use of fanboys

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Alliteration

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Repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words
“Peter piped picked…”

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Assonance

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Repetition of similar vowel sounds

“Refresh your zest..”

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Anaphora

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Repetition of same group of words or word at beginnings of successive clauses

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Epistrophe

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Repetition of same group of words or word at end of successive clauses
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny compared to what lies within us.” —Emerson

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Epanalepsis

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Repetition of the word that occurred at the beginning of clause; “Blood hath bought blood and blows have answer’d blows

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Anadiplosis

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Repetition of last word of one clause at beginning of following clause
“The crime was common, common be the pain”

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Climax

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Arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in order of increasing importance

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Antimetabole

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Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order; uses an anastrophe
“One should eat to live, not eat to live”

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Chiasmus

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Reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses
“Exalts his enemies, his friends destroys”

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Polyptoton

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Repetition of words drives from the same root

“We would like to contain and uncontainable future in a glass”

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Metaphor

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Implied comparison between two things of unlike nature

“She barked out orders”

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Simile

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Explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature

“The night is bleeding like a cut”

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Synecdoche

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Figure of speech in which part stands for the whole

Colts=all students

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Metonymy

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Substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant

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Antanaclasis

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Type of pun; use of words alike in sound but different in meaning
“Your argument is sound… All sound” 1st reasonable 2nd empty

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Paronmasia

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Type of pun; use of words alike in sound but different in meaning
“Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends”

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Syllepsis

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Type of pun; use of word understood differently in relation to two or more other words, which it modifies
“The ink, like our pig, keeps running out of the pen”

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Anthimeria

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Substation of one part of speech for another

“Backpacking”

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Periphrasis

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Autonomasia
Substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name or of a proper name for a quality associated with the name
Jim Crow = black codes

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Personification

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Giving human qualities to an animal or inanimate objects

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Hyperbole

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Use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis

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Litotes

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Negation as means of deliberate understatement

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Irony

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Use of a word in such a way as to convey a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word

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Onomatopoeia

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Use of words whose sound echoes the sense

Snap crackle pop

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Oxymoron

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Contradictory

“Awfully beautiful”

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Paradox

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Contradictory statement that nevertheless contains a measure of truth

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Apostrophe

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Addressing an inanimate object someone that is absent or someone that’s dead as if they were present

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Volta

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Shift or point of dramatic change

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Stichomythia

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Dialogue in which tow characters speak alternate lines of verse

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Foil

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Character presented as a contrast to a second character

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Pleonasm

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Use of more words than or necessary to convey meaning; redundancy- no longer needed

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Parataxis

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Juxtaposition of words, phrases, or clauses for that create an effect of irony or paradox

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Montage

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Juxtaposition of heterogeneous elements

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Verisimilitude

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Appearance of being true or real

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Avant-garde

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People or works that are experimental or innovative

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Roman a clef

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Novel in which actual person and events are disguised as fictional characters

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Epigraph

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Quotation at the beginning of a piece of literature

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Formalist essay

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Tone 
Attitude
Diction
Language
Detail
Imagery
Syntax
Organization
Point of view
Perspective

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