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
Polysyndeton
And you and I and our cats and our dogs
Personifications
Own- the wire tripped me up
Literary- the spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me
Oxymoron
There was a deafening silence
Litotes
Oh hell, that is not an unimportant thing
Irony
Well that is a delightfully clear as mud
Synesis
We, the people
Synchysis
Young man, boy old
Synecdoche
Let me see thy righteous spirit
Tautology
If you don’t get any better then you’ll never improve
Zeugma
Time makes older adults wiser and younger adults less wise
Metonymy
I’ll just google it
Catachresis
Own- he looked at the price and his pockets ran dry
