Rhetorical Devices
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DavisRachel on June 2, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Hyperbole | the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect |
| Rhetoric | the art of elegant speaking or oratory |
| Allusion | a brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature |
| Pun | a play on words that relies on a word's having more than one meaning or sounding like another word |
| Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series or related words, phrases, or clauses |
| Anaphora | repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginnings of successive clauses |
| Metonymy | substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant |
| Asydeton | deliberate omission of conjuctions between a series of related clauses |
| Polysyndeton | deliberate use of many conjuctions |
| Anecdote | a short summary of a (usually)humorous event |
| Appostition | placing side by side two coordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first |
| Alliteration | repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words |
| Consonance | common type of near rhyme that consists of identical consonant sounds preceded by different vowel sounds |
| Assonance | repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words |
| Rhetorical Question | asking a question, not to elicit an anwer, but to assert or deny something obliquely |
| Antithesis | the juxtaposition fo contrastion ideas, often in parallel structure |
| Paradox | an apparently condtradictory statement that nevertheless contains a measure of truth |
| Pathos | Emotional appeal |
| Ethos | Ethical Appeal |
| Logos | Logical Appeal |
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