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Rhetorical Terms Flashcards

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Inventio

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Finding or inventing a subject to speak about

From Latin “find”

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Dispositio

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Arrangement/order of points

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Elocutio

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Manner of delivering speech

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Memoria

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Memorising the speech

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Pronunciato

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The performance of the speech

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Accumulation

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Heaping of similar ideas or images expressed in various ways

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Anacolouthon

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Beginning a sentence with one grammatical construction and finishing with another
From the Greek “not” + “following”
Eg If thou beest he; but O how fallen!

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Anadiplosis

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Repeating a word at the end of one clause and the beginning of the next
Greek “doubling”/”folding up”
Eg fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate

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Anaphora

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Repeating a word at the begininning of several clauses

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Antithesis

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Presenting a contrast of ideas through balanced, opposing words and clauses

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Antanaclasis

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Repetition of a word but employing a different sense

Eg ‘thou art all my art’

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Antiphrasis

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Irony - ie a word or phrase is used to mean its opposite

Eg ‘Little John’

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Apostrophe

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Breaking off from the narrative to address an absent person/thing/deity/concept
Greek “turning away”
Eg ‘Oh, Death!’

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds

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Asyndeton

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Omission of conjunctions

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Aposiopesis

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Breaking off from speech suddenly, often due to strong emotion

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Bathos

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Deliberate anticlimax, or lowering of tone

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Brevitas

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Conciseness

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Chiasmus

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ABBA
Latin “cross”
Aka antimetabole

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Catachresis

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Misapplication of a word, either incorrect usage or unusual placement
Greek “abuse”
Eg the “inhabitants” of a graveyard / “I’m ravished”

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Ekphrasis

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Set-piece, self-contained/departing description of a piece of art

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Eliipsis

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Omission of a word or words which is strictly grammatically necessary

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Enargeia

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A vivid description, bringing view of something before the audience

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Epanados

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Repeating a word at the beginning + middle, or middle + end of a line

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Enjambement

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Running over from line to the next

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Exordium

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The introduction to a speech - Cicero said it should put the audience in the right frame of mind for the rest

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Epanalepsis

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Repetition of a word or words with intervening words

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Epanorthosis

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Retracting and replacing something that’s just been said
Aka correctio
Eg ‘Your eye, no… your hair’

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Epistrophe

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Repeating a word at the end of multiple clauses

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Hendiadys

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Expression of a single idea via noun-and-noun, instead of adjective-noun
Eg ‘nice and cool’

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Homoeoteleuton

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Words in clise proximity with the same ending

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Hypallage

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Transference of an adjective to a noun to which it doesnt belong
Eg ‘they went, dark, beneath the lonely night’

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Hyperbaton

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Unsual word order

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration

Greek “throw above”

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Hysteron-proteron

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Presentation of ideas in an illogical order
A type of hyperbaton
Eg ‘they died and rushed into battle’

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Juxtaposition

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Placing things next to each other

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Litotes

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Emphatic understatement, eg double negative

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Meiosis

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Understatement

Eg ‘a scatch!’

39
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Metalepsis

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Missing out logical steps

Eg ‘I’ve got to catch the worm tomorrow’

40
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Metonymy

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The name or attribute of something stands in for the thing itself
Eg mars = war / pen = writing

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Onomatopeia

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Sound of a word relates to its meaning

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Oxymoron

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A compressed paradox - two contradictory ideas yoked together
Greek “oksus” (sharp, clever) and “morus” (dull, follish)

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Praeteritio

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I wont mention X… whoops I already did

Aka paralepsis / apophasis

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Peroration

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Conclusion to a speech

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Pathetic fallacy

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Attributing human emotions to inanimate things

46
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Pathos

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Pity or sadness, empathy

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Periphrasis

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Circumlocution

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Personification

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Describing something non-human in a human way

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Parison

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A sequence of lines or clauses eith similar syntactic structure

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Plenoasm

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Deliberate verbosity

Eg dark, shadowy night shone darkly

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Polyptoton

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Using the same word repeated, but in different forms

Eg ‘to live a life, living here’

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Polysyndeton

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Lots of conjunctions

53
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Prosopopoeia

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Addressing an idea or a concept as a real person, or speaking as another thing/person/character

54
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Syllepsis

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Using one word to apply to two

Eg i fall into bed and disarray

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Synechdoche

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Using the part to represent the whole

Eg all hands on deck

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Tricolon

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Triplet

57
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Variatio

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Variation of construction

58
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Zeugma

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Applying a verb or adjective to two nouns, with two different senses

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