Literary Terms: Rhetoric

Literary Terms: Rhetoric in

"I Have a Dream""

By Laura Beckham

Word choice, or diction

the use of words to construct meaning through their literal definitions (denotation) and/or their emotional associations (connotation)

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Assonance

​the repetition of similar vowel sounds in words that are close together

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Repetition

the use of the same or similar words, sounds, or ideas more than once

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Alliteration

the repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together

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Parallelism

the repetition of words, phrases, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure or that express a similar idea

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Rhetorical question

a question meant to be thought-provoking rather than needing a direct answer

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​Allusion

a reference to a person, thing, or other element of culture known from literature, history, religion, myth, politics, sports, science, or the arts

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