Rhetorical Figures 5
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Burningtree on November 1, 2010
Classes:
Dr. Bob's AP English Language and Composition
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8 terms
Latin | English |
|---|---|
| personification |  The application of human attributes or abilities to nonhuman entities. |
| polysyndeton | The deliberate and excessive use of conjunctions in successive words or clauses. |
| Rhetorical Question | A question whose answer is obvious or implied. |
| Scesis Onomaton | A successive series of words or phrases whose meanings are generally equivalent. |
| Sententia | A wise, witty, or pithy maxim or aphorism is used to sum up the preceding material. |
| simile | Comparison between two unlike things as though they were similar -- usually with the words "like" or "as". |
| symploce | Repetition of the first and last words in a clause over successive clauses. |
| Synecdoche | Aword standing for part of something is used for the whole of that thing or vice versa. |
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