silly rhetoric Things Flashcards
1
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what’s an allusion
A
referencing a well known thing in a work of literature
2
Q
Rhetorical question
A
question just asked for effect
3
Q
Chiasmus
A
Grammatical structure of first sentence is reversed in second
4
Q
Anadiplodis
A
Repeat at beginning of sentence the last word of preceding sentence
5
Q
Litotes
A
Deliberate understatement
6
Q
Antithesis
A
Opposite ideas in parallel construction
7
Q
Simile
A
Comparison with like or as
8
Q
Anaphora
A
Beginning of sentence repeated
9
Q
Anecdote
A
A story about a persons life irl that is used to make a point
10
Q
Synecdoche
A
Figure of speech, a part meaning a whole
11
Q
Personification
A
Giving nonhuman thing human traits
12
Q
Hyperbole
A
Deliberate overstatement
13
Q
Epistrophe
A
Repetition of end of phrase
14
Q
Parallelism
A
sentences with same grammatical structure
15
Q
Metaphor
A
Comparison without like or as
