English Ap Rhetorical Devices

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Metonoymy

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A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty").

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Hyperbole

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use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech.

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Oxymoron

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combines contradictory terms

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Pun

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is a form of word play which suggests two or more meanings

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Metaphor

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comparison not using like or as

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Parodox

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group of statements that leads to a contradiction or a situation which defies logic or intuition

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personification

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giving life like qualitys to a dead thing

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simile

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comparison using like or as

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Litotes

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is a figure of speech in which understatement is employed for rhetorical effect when an idea is expressed by a denial of its opposite, principally via double negatives

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Synecdoche

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punish, alot of work I will lend a hand

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Chiasmus

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is the figure of speech in which two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point; that is, the clauses display inverted parallelism

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Anaphora

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that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them emphasis.

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Antithesis

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oppisite

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Paralleslism

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Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.

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Anastrophe

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talks to inanimant things

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asydeton

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with out use of contractions

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polysydeton

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over use of contractions