Rhetorical Devices
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jayy12 on February 6, 2011
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ap english language and composition
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Anadiplosis | Figure of repetition that occurs when the last word or terms in one sentence, clause, or phrase is/are repeated at or very near the beginning of the next sentence, clause, or phrase. |
| Anaphora | Figure of repition that occurs when the first word or set of words in one sentence, clause or phrase, is/are repeated at the beginning of successive sentences, clauses, or phrases; repetition of the initial word(s) over successive phrases or clauses. |
| Antimetabole | Figure of emphasis in which the words in one phrase or clause are replicated, exactly or closesly, in reverse grammatical order in the next phrase or clause; an inverted order of repeated words in adjacent phrases or clauses (A-B, B-a). |
| Conduplicatio | Figure of repetition in which the key word or words in one phrase, clause, or sentence is/are repeated at or very near the beginning of successive sentencees, clauses or phrases; "repeition of a key word over successive phrases or clauses. Note: compare with anadiplosis. |
| Epistrophe | (also called antistrophe); Figure of repetition that occurs when the last word or set of words in one sentence, clause or phrase is repeated one or more times at the end of successive sentences, clauses, or phrases |
| Parallelism | Figure of balance identified by a similarity in the syntactical structure of a set of words in successive phrases, clauses, sentences; successive words, phrases, clauses with the same or very similar grammatical structure. This figure often occurs in public address with others such as antithesis, anaphora, asyndeton, climax, apistorphe, and symploce. |
| Polysendeton | Figure of addition adn emphasis which intentionally employes a series of conjunctions (and, or, but, for, nor, so, yet) not normally found in successive words, phrases, or clauses; the deliberate and excessive use of conjunctions in successive words or clauses. |
| Synecdoche | Figure of comparision in which a word standing for a part of something is used for the whole of that thing or vice versa; any part or portion or quality of athing used to stand for the whole of the thign or vice versa- genus to species or species to genus. |
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