Rhetorical Devices

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Amplification

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Involves repeating a word or expression was adding more detail to in order to emphasize what might otherwise be passed over in other words amplification allows you to call attention to emphasize and expand on a word or idea to make sure the reader realizes its importance or certainty in the discussion

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Anaphora

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Is the repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses clauses or sentences

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Antithesis

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Establishes a clear contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing them often and parallel structure

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Sentence fragments

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Help emphasize words and phrases

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Exemplum

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Is setting an example using the illustrative story either true or fictitious

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Anadiplosis

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Repeats the last word of one phrase clause or sentence at or very near the beginning of the next

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Procatalepsis

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Anticipating an objection and answering it permits an argument to continue moving forward while taking into account points or reasons opposing of the train of thought or the final conclusions

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Apostrophe

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Interrupts the discussion or discourse and addresses directly a person or personified thank you your present or absent its most common purpose is prose is to give vent to or display intense emotion which can no longer be held back

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Antanagoge

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Is placing a good point or benefit next to a criticism or problem in order to reduce the impact or significance of the negative point

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Hypophora

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Consists of raising one or more questions and then proceeding to answer them usually at some length a common usage is to ask the question at the beginning of a paragraph and then using the paragraph to answer it

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Parallelism

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Is recurrent syntactical similarity several parts of a sentence or several sentences are expressed similarly to show that the ideas and the parts of your sentences are equal and importance parallelism also ask balance and rhythm and most importantly clarity to the sentence

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Metanoia

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Qualifies a statement by recalling it and expressing it in a better way a negative is also often used to do the recall

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Rhetorical question

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Difference from hypoxia and that it is not answered by the writer because its answer is obvious or obviously desired and usually just a yes or no it is used for effect emphasis or provocation or for drawing a conclusion from the facts at hand

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Scesis onomaton

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Emphasizes an idea by expressing it in a string of generally synonymous phrases or statements while it should be used carefully this deliberate and obvious Restatement can be quite effective