Rhetorical Terms Flashcards
Metonymy
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
Synecdoche
Part of something used to refer to the whole remove the part like 50 head of cattle
Parallelism
Set a similarly constructed words, phrases, or clauses
So same tense
Parts of speech repeated
Plurality
Anadiplosis
Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause
Di two
Anaphora
Repeat beginning of successive clauses. She was…. She was…. She was…..
Epistrophe
End with the same phrase
See no evil, hear no evil, heard no evil
Antimetabole
Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order
Girl out of country but can’t take country out of girl