Rhetorical Terms Flashcards
Periodic sentence
stuff before independent clause
Loose sentence
Cumulative
Litotes
ironic understatement
you won’t be sorry, meaning you’ll be glad
conceit
extended metaphor w/ complex logic
through a whole poem or passage
allegory
poem/ passage with hidden meaning
people are symbols that stand for other things
colloquialism
speech of common man
cumulative sentence
Independent clause and then stuff
rhythm
pattern of sound
anaphora
repeats first part
“My life is my purpose. My life is my goal. My life is my inspiration.”
antimetabole
repeating in different order
“I know what I like, and I like what I know”
zeugma
“John lost his coat and his temper …
John and his license expired last week
with weeping eyes and hearts
Inverted sentence
Verb-Noun
Down the street lived the man and his wife
Under the them are evergreen thickets of rhododendrons
