Rhetorical Terms Flashcards

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Metonymy

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Refer to something by what associated with
Dish for a plate of food
Pen is mightier than a sword
The pentagon to refer to its staff

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Synecdoche

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Part of something used to refer to the whole remove the part like 50 head of cattle

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Parallelism

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Set a similarly constructed words, phrases, or clauses

So same tense
Parts of speech repeated
Plurality

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Anadiplosis

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Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause
Di two

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Anaphora

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Repeat beginning of successive clauses. She was…. She was…. She was…..

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Epistrophe

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End with the same phrase

See no evil, hear no evil, heard no evil

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Antimetabole

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Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order

Girl out of country but can’t take country out of girl

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