Rhetorical Terms

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Onomatepeia

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A play on the sound of words

Ex. The bee buzzed in front of my face.

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Pun

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A Play on Words

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Simile

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Uses like or as to compare two different ideas and make them sound similar.

“My love is like a fever, burning me up”

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Metaphor

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Is an implied comparison, doesn’t use like or as.

“My love is a fever burning me up”

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Analogy

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A comparison that sets up a proportional relationship.

“If knowledge is a tree, the different fields of knowledge are its branches.”

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Personification

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Using human qualities to describe abstract ideas or things.

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Allegories

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Are extended comparisons with abstract ideas that are personified by human characters

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Fables

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Are short allegorical stories that point out a lesson or moral; Characters are usually animals with human qualities.

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Metonoymy

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A figure of speech in which one phrase is substituted for another whit which it is closely associated.

Th Crown instead of royalty

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Synecdoche

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A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole

“All hands on deck”

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Apposition

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A word or phrase used to add more detail to a sentence

“Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States,”

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Epiphet

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When an a single word adjective is added to portray a specific trait

“Alexander the Great”

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Hyperbole

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When a phrase is over exaggerated to the extreme

“A billion people were at the concert last night”

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Understatement

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When a phrase understates something

“As tiny as a mouse”

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Euphism

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Using and explicit term rather than the polite version

“I need to urinate” instead of “I need to use the restroom”

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Paradox

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obviously contradictory but on some level true.

“Whoever humbles himself as a this child, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven”

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Oxymoron

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Using two contradictory words in the same clause

“bittersweet emotions” “Cheerful pessimist”

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Parallelism

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The repetition of the same type of speech or grammatical form over many sentences.

“Of the people, by the people, for the people,”

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Ellipsis

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Not using a word that is obviously there

“Some like their hamburgers with ketchup, some with mustard.”

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Antithesis

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Using parallelism to repeat contradictory statements

“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”

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Exclamation

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An abrupt interruption of a sentence that addresses someone who may or may not be there..

“I am speaking foolishly”

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Parenthesis

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An interruption that sparks a new idea.

“The brave men, living and dead, who struggled…”

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Double Entenre

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A Sexual Play on Words

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Logos

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Appealing to the readers logical thinking

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Ethos

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Appealing to the readers ethical view and or qualifications of the writer

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Pathos

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Appealing to the readers emotion