Rhetorical Vocab 1

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Allusion

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Indirect reference

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Ambiguity

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Having multiple meanings

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Analogy:

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Likeness between things that are not alike.

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Anaphora

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Repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses.

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antistophe

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repetition of word/phrase at the close of successive clauses

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antithesis

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direct or exact opposite

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Aphorism

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Terse statement expressing general truth.

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apostrophe

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direct address of a non-person, imaginary or absent person

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Asyndeton

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Absence of conjunctions

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Connotation

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Non-literal or implied meaning of a word.