| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Anadiplosis | The repetition of the last word in the last sentence in the beginning of the next sentence |
| Anaphora | Emphasizing words by repeating them at the beginnings of neighboring clauses |
| Anecdote | Short tale narrating an interesting or amusing biographical incident |
| Antimetabole | Repetition of words in successive clauses, but in transposed grammatical order EX: One for all, and all for one. |
| Antithesis | Obvious contrast of a previous proposition |
| Appositive | A noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it |
| Asyndeton | Conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of related clauses (veni, vidi, vici) |
| Begging the Question | Circular Reasoning |
| Climax/Climbing the Ladder | Scheme of amplification; Wrds/Phrases/Clauses ordered in order of importance. |
| Connotation | Suggestive meaning of a word or phrase. |
| Deductive Reasoning | A reasoning whose conclusions are intended to follow from the previous premise |
| Epistrophe | Emphasizing words by repeating them at the ends of neighboring clauses |
| Hyperbole | Extreme exaggeration |
| Inductive Reasoning | Process of reasoning in which the premises of an argument are believed to support the conclusion but do not prove it |
| Irony | Incongruity or discordance between what a speaker or a writer says and what he or she means, or is generally understood |
| Jargon | Terminology that relates to a specific activity, profession or group |
| Litotes | Understatement |
| Metonymy | use of a word for a concept or object which is associated with the concept/object originally denoted by the word (Throne ~ Royal Power) |
| Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms |
| Parallelism | Means to give two or more parts of the sentences a similar form so as to give the whole a definite pattern |
| Periphrasis | A grammatical concept that is expressed by more than one word |
| Major Premise | A general statement (in a syllogism) |
| Minor Premise | A specific statement (in a syllogism) |
| Pun | A phrase that deliberately exploits confusion between similar-sounding words for humorous or rhetorical effect |
| Sarcasm | Stating the opposite of an intended meaning especially in order to sneeringly, slyly, jest or mock a person, situation or thing |
| Syllogism | Kind of logical in which one proposition (the conclusion) is inferred from two others (the premises) of a certain form |
| Symbol | Objects, pictures, or other concrete representations of ideas, concepts, or other abstractions |
| Synecdoche | A term denoting a part of something is used to refer to the whole thing |
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