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12 Cards in this Set
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Syllogism
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Major-All men are mortal.
Minor-Socrates is a man. Conclusion-Socrates is mortal. |
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Asyndeton
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the omission of conjunctions between related clauses.
Ex: I came, I saw, I conquered |
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Polysyndeton
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the use of many conjunctions in a sentence or a clause.
Ex: "We lived and laughed and loved and left." |
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Anaphora
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repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive clause/sentence.
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Synecdoche
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a part of something used to refer to the whole.
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Metonymy
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a figurative part that refers to a whole in respect to it's attributes.
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Anaphora
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the repetition of words of a group of words of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses.
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Epistrophe
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the repetition of a group of words at the end of successive clauses.
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Anadiplosis
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the repetition of the last word of a preceding clause.
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Mesodiplosis
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Repetition of the same word or words in the middle of successive sentences.
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Antimetabole
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the repetition of words in successive clauses, but in transposed order (e.g., "I know what I like, and I like what I know").
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Anthimeria
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Substitution of one part of speech for another (such as a noun used as a verb).
Ex: Googled it. |
