Rhetorical terms Flashcards
Climax
Own-Love creates happiness, happiness creates joy, joy creates enlightment.
Chiasmus
I thought you were good, originally, but your originality is not that good.
Anacoluthon
When the light shines- if you ever return
Anadiplosis
I would but run away. Run away, perhaps today. perhaps today I will
Anaphora
Own- blessed are the good and blessed are the poor
Literary- my ears my mouth my heart
Anastrophe
Good, it is. Strong in the force, you are
Antistrophe
I told you to do it again. Like last time, I had to repeat myself again
Antithesis
In many ways, the old are young
Aporia
Maybe I am stupid or something, maybe I am not paying attention here or maybe you are talking rubbish
Aposiopesis
If I give you what you wanted, would you…
Apostrophe
O, I do not know what to do? What should this be, you think?
Archaism
Thou art a dolt
Assonance
How now, brown cow
Asyndeton
I will buy you drink; you do not deserve it
Hyperbaton
I will you kiss
Hendiadys
The heat and sun of midday
Hypallage
A careless remark left her crying in the dark
Hysteron proteron
She brought me up well and gave birth to my life.
Paradox
I always lie
Pleonasm
Your future prediction is null and void
Paronomasia
We egged the runners but the yolk was on us
Paraprodokian
Take my hand, I do not want it
Praeteritio
He is clearly guilty to say nothing of his previous record
Prolepsis
Say that agin and you’re fired
