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Anaphora |
repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginnings of successive clauses to intensify the meaning of a piece |
I remember her sun-kissed skin I remember her blue eyes I remember her melodic laugh |
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antimetabole |
repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order |
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argument ad hominem |
personal attack on another person |
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deductive reasoning |
drawing conclusions from affirmative and negative statements; general logic |
A was caused by B, which caused C. |
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ellipsis |
deliberate omission of a word or words which are readily implied by the context |
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enthymeme |
an argument in brief that assumes the audience already knows one of the premises; therefore one of the premises are implied |
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hyperbole |
the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect
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inductive reasoning |
draws conclusions from a body of facts; making generalizations from researched facts |
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irony |
use of a word in such a way as to convey a meaning opposite to to the literal meaning of a word |
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litotes |
deliberate understatement, not to deceive someone but to enhance the impressiveness of what they say |
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metonymy |
substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant |
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oxymoron |
the yoking of two terms that are ordinarily contradictory |
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parallelism |
similarity of structure in a pair of related words, phrases, or clauses |
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rhetorical fragment |
sentence fragment used deliberately for a persuasive purpose or to create a desired effect |
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synecdoche |
a figure of speech in which the part stands for the whole |
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