Rhetorical Devices

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_______________ means: a question someone asks without expecting an answer.

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rhetorical question

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A repeated grammatical pattern

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parallelism

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Repetition of one or more words at the END of successive phrases or clauses

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epistrophe

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The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or phrases

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anaphora

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An allusion is:

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A reference to either a historical event or another text meant to make a connection between them

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HYPERBOLE

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An exaggeration

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SIMILE

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A comparison that uses like or as

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OXYMORON

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The combination of two words of opposite meaning

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METAPHOR

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A comparison between two things that does not use like or as

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UNDERSTATEMENT

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Making an idea seem less important than it really is