RHETORICAL DEVICES
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akorynta on October 14, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines, ex. "Mad Kings! Mad World! Mad composition!" (King John, ll, i) |
| antithesis | opposition or juxtapostion of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction. ex. "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that i loved Rome more." ( Julius Caesar, lll,ii) |
| aporia | questioning oneself (or rhetorically asking the audience), often pretending to be in doubt, ex. "The baptism of John, whence was it? From heaven, or of men? (Matthew 21:25) |
| apostrophe | a sudden turn from the general audeince to address a specifc group or person, either absent or present, real or imagined, ex. " oh death, where is thy sting? oh grave, where is thy victory?" (1 Cor. 15:55) |
| asyndeton | the absense of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words, ex. "Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, / shrunk to this little measure?" (Julius Caesar, III, iii) |
| euphemism | a substitution of a more pleasant expression for one whose meaning may come across as rude or offensive, ex. "He passed away." rather then "He Died." |
| hyperbole | exaggeration for emphasis or for the rthetorical effect. ex. " I died laughing." |
| irony | (verbal) expression in which words mean something contray to what is actually said |
| metonymy | a reference to an object or person by naming only a part of the object or person, ex. "She stood in the driveway watching as the beards moved her furniture into her new house." |
| paralipsis | pretending to omit something by drawing attention to it, Ex. A politician saying: "I will not even mention the fact that my opponent was a poor student." |
| parallelism | repetition of a key word over successive phrases or clauses "We will have difficult times. We've had difficult times in the past. and we will have difficult times in the future." Robert F. Kennedy's Eulogy for Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968) |
| synecdoche | a part or quality of something which is used iin substitution of the larger whole. or vice versa |
| rhetorical question | a question that is posed for emphasis, not requiring an answer, ex. "Art thou mad? Is not the truth?" (Henry IV, Part 1, ll, iv) |
| understatement | deliberately de-emphasizing something in order to downplay its importance, ex. "The Internet has contributed somewhat to improving communication," is an understatement |
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