Rhetorical Devices

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___________________ means: a rhetorical device that uses a word in a new grammatical shape, often as a noun or a verb. Simply, it replaces one part of speech with another.

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anthimeria

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

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rhetorical question

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Two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.

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antithesis

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A noun or word is followed by another noun or phrase that renames or identifies it.

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apposition

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A repeated grammatical pattern

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parallelism

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Omitting conjunctions such as “and” from a series of related clauses for rhetorical effect

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asyndeton

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A phrase or sentence that is repeated in reverse order using the exact same words and grammatical pattern

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antimetabole

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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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What rhetorical device is used in the quote: "We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne..."? Options: antithesis, parallelism, apposition, epistrophe.

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parallelism