Rhetorical Devices

Amplification

• The way the writer embellishes a sentence to emphasize certain points

• to describe

• an unexpected discontinuity in the expression of ideas within a sentence lacks logical incoherence of thought

• The last word or phrase of one , clause, sentence, or line is repeated at the beginning of the next

Anacoluthon

• To follow a negative point with a positive one

• the repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words

• an unexpected discontinuity in the expression of ideas within a sentence lacks logical incoherence of thought

• When a speaker brings up a subject by either denying it or denying it being brought up

Anadiplosis

• an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive

• When a speaker brings up a subject by either denying it or denying it being brought up

• exaggeration

• The last word or phrase of one , clause, sentence, or line is repeated at the beginning of the next

Apoptosis

• an unexpected discontinuity in the expression of ideas within a sentence lacks logical incoherence of thought

• When a speaker brings up a subject by either denying it or denying it being brought up

• raising a question then proceeding to answer i

• The last word or phrase of one , clause, sentence, or line is repeated at the beginning of the next

  
  

Antanagoge

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  To follow a negative point with a positive one

• comparing something using like or as

• A reference to another work of literature, person, or event

• A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.

Chiasmus

• a nickname or phrase used to characterize someone or something

• the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

  
  

• a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form

  
  

• purposely using harsh, discordant mixture of sounds

Hypophora

• exaggeration

• raising a question then proceeding to answer it

• The substitution of a disagreeable, offensive, or disparaging expression for an agreeable or inoffensive one

• gravitation may act without contact; therefore, either some force may act without contact or gravitation is not a force

Euphemism

• an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive

• an offensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered non-offensive

• A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.

• the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning

Oxymoron

• A transposition or inversion of idiomatic word order

• An interchange of two elements in a phrase or sentence from a more logical to a less logical relationship

• Emphatic repetition

• A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.

Satire

• the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize something/someone

• the use of humor , irony , and exaggeration to tell a story

• Understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary

• The presentation of a thing with underemphasis especially in order to achieve a greater effect