Julius Caesar Rhetorical Terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Chiasmus | A reversal in the order of words in two parallel phrases |
| Diacope | Repetition of a word/phrase broken up by other words or phrases |
| Anachronism | Something/someone not placed in their correct historical time |
| Soliloquy | A device where a character speaks to him or herself; represents unspoken reflections |
| Apostrophe | When the character breaks off and directs speech at an imaginary person |
| Synecdoche | Part of something that refers to a whole or the whole of something which refers to a part |
| Ellipsis | Intentional omission of words |
| Metonymy | When one word/phrase is substituted for something else which it is closely associated with |
| Euphemism | A phrase which substitutes a suggestive/offensive one |
| Litotes (understatement) | An understatement where an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite |
| Anadiplosis | Repetition of the last word/phrase from the previous line or sentence at the beginning of the next |
| Epanalepsis | Repetition of the same word after intervening matter; Repetition at the end of the line/sentence of the words occurring at the beginning of the same line/sentence |
| Conduplicatio | Repetition of a word/words; General term for repetition carrying more specific meaning of repetition of words in adjacent phrases |
| Antithesis | Opposition, contrast; A counter-proposition and denotes a direct contrast to the original proposition |
| Anaphora | An expression referring to another |
| Epistrophe | The counterpart of anaphora |
| Polysyndeton | The overuse of words such as 'and', etc. |
| Asyndeton | The underuse of words like 'and', etc. |
| Ad Hominem | Personal attack (according to Mrs. Holden; I didn't look this one uppp) |
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