Rhetorical Devices
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gralspaugh on February 9, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 hypallage | transfered epithet; grammatical agreement of a word with another word which it does not logically qualify |
| prosopopeia | a sub-category of personification in which inanimate objects are given human speech and sometimes other characteristics, OR an absent person or thing is made to sound as if present |
| aposiopesis | like anacoluthon, except the person is overcome with emotions |
| hendiadys | use of two words connected by a conjunction, instead of subordinating one to the other, to express a single complex idea |
| synecdoche | understanding one thing with another; the use of a part for the whole, or the whole for the part |
| apostrophe | a sudden turn from the general audience to address a specific group or person or personified abstraction absent of present |
| oxymoron | apparent paradox achieved by the juxtaposition of words which seem to contradict one another |
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