Shusta-Brown AP Set 3
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team4rules on November 28, 2010
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ap english language & composition
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Latin | English |
|---|---|
| auxesis |  Arranging words or clauses in a sequence of increasing force |
| anaphora | Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or lines |
| elenchus | A logical refutation |
| paradox | A statement that is self-contradictory on the surface, yet seems to evoke a truth nonetheless |
| tricolon | Three parallel elements of the same length occurring together in a series |
| accumulatio | Bringing together various points made throughout a speech and presenting them again in a forceful, climactic way |
| asyndeton | The omission of conjunctions between clauses, often resulting in a hurried rhythm or vehement effect |
| circumlocution | "Talking around" something, usually by supplying a descriptive phrase in place of a name. Rhetorically useful as euphemisms, as a method of amplification, or to hint at something without stating it |
| allegory | A sustained metaphor continued through whole sentences or even through a whole discourse |
| adianoeta | An expression that, in addition to an obvious meaning, carries a second, subtle meaning (often at variance with the ostensible meaning) |
| diasyrmus | Rejecting an argument through ridiculous comparison |
| apodixis | Proving a statement by referring to common knowledge or general experience |
| diaskeue | Graphic peristasis (description of circumstances) intended to arouse the emotions |
| syncrisis | Comparison and contrast in parallel clauses |
| chiasmus | Repetition of ideas in inverted order |
| cacozelia | A stylistic affectation of diction, such as throwing in foreign words to appear learned; bad taste in words or selection of metaphor, either to make the facts appear worse or to disgust the auditors |
| pysma | The asking of multiple questions successively (which would together require a complex reply). A rhetorical use of the question |
| tapinosis | Giving a name to something which diminishes it in importance. A kind of meiosis |
| correctio | The amending of a term or phrase just employed; or, a futher specifying of meaning, especially by indicating what something is not (which may occur either before or after the term or phrase used) |
| anamnesis | Calling to memory past matters; citing a past author from memory |
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