Style Analysis
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Rhetorical Embellishment
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Parallelism | express similar or related ideas in similar grammatical structures |
| Chiasmus | derived from the Greek letter CHI (X); grammatical structure of the first clause or phrase is reversed in the second, sometimes repeating the same words |
| Climax | writer arranges ideas in order of importance |
| Antithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas |
| Epistrophe | repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses (opposite of anaphora) |
| Word Order | in english, standard word order usually follows the subject-verb pattern. adjectives ordinarily precede nouns. deviation from normal word order signals emphasis |
| Anastrophe | word order is reversed or rearranged |
| Apposition | the placing next to a noun another noun or phrase that explains it |
| Parenthesis | the insertion of words, phrases, or a sentence that is not syntactically related to the rest of the sentence. such material is set off from the rest of the sentence in one of two ways: dashes or parentheses |
| Asyndenton | conjunctions are omitted, producing a fast-paced and rapid prose |
| Polysyndenton | the use of many conjunctions has an opposite effect, it slows the pace |
| Anaphora | the regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning or successive phrases or clauses |
| Alliteration | the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of successive words |
| Assonance | involves the repetition of sounds within words |
| Pun | play on words |
| Personification | attributing human qualities to an inanimate object |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration; deliberate exaggeration for emphasis |
| Synecdoche | a form of metaphor in which the part stands for the whole, the whole for a part, the genus for the species, the species for the genus, the material for the thing made; or in short, any portion, section, or main quality for the whole thing itself (or vice versa) |
| Metonymy | designation of one thing with something closely associated with it |
| Oxymoron | contradiction; two contradictory terms or ideas used together |
| Paradox | a statement that appears contradictory, but holds some truth |
| Onomatopoeia | refers to the use of words whose sound reinforces their meaning |
| Rhetorical Question | commonly defined as those questions that do not require an answer |
| Four Types of Rhetorical Questions | Asking the Reader (address the question to the reader) Asking the Writer (address the question to the writer) Criticizing (writer making a criticism in the form of a question) Asking and Answering (writer asks a question and answers it) |
| Apostrophe | "A turning away." You "turn away" from you audience to address someone new- God, the angels, Heaven, the dead, or anyone not present |
| Euphemism | substitute less pungent words for harsh ones, with excellent ironic effect |
| Balance | similar ideas are expressed in similar grammatical structure, contrasting ideas in contrasting grammatical structure, or a series of ideas in climactic order |
| Schemes | rearrangement of ideas, words, or phrases that are stylistically effective; often the pattern of the words effectively serves to reinforce the meaning |
| Tropes | involve alterations in the usual meanings of words or phrases |
| Types of Tropes | pun, metaphor, simile, personification, onomatopoeia, irony, hyperbole, synecdoche, metonymy, oxymoron, paradox, rhetorical question |
| Types of Schemes | balance (parallelism, chaismus, climac, antithesis), word order (anastrophe), addition (apposition, parenthesis), omission (asyndeton, polysyndeton), repetition (anaphora), sound (alliteration, assonance) |
| Coordination | join complete sentences, clauses, and phrases (and, but, or, nor, yet, for, so) |
| Subordination | link two related sentences to each other so tha tone carries the main idea and the other is no longer a complete sentence (after, although, as if, because, if, rather, since, than, though, when, whereas, etc) |
| Relative Pronouns | embed one sentence inside the other using a clause starting with one of the relative pronouns listed above (which, who, whoever, whom, that, whose) |
| Periodic Sentence | a sentence withholding its main idea until the end; important modifiers precede the basic SVC |
| Loose Sentence | modifiers follow the basic SVC pattern; ends with a dependent sentence element |
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