Rhetorical Strategies

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Isocolon

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The compounding of two or more parts perfectly equivalent in structure or rhythm

Ex: veni, vidi, vici

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Epiplexis

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Asking questions to rebuke an argument (why have you not done this yet? Why have you failed us so?)

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Zeugma

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A figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (with weeping eyes and hearts)

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Anthimeria

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Novel changes in a word's use, usually from a verb to a noun ("be silence.")

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Anastrophe

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Inversion of the usual order of words or clauses

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Allegoru

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Using character or story elements symbolically to indirectly represent the literal meaning

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Anaphora

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Repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of two or more lines or clauses

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Anecdote

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Short narrative giving a particular interesting event, incident in the life of a person

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Antithesis

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Contrasting opposing ideas in adjacent phrases, clauses, or sentences. Definite and systematic relationship between ideas

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Aphorism

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Terse statement of known authorship to express a general truth or moral principle

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Apostrophe

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Figure of speech that directly addresses an imaginary person or a personified abstraction. "Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour, England hath need of thee." (Addressing a dead essayist)

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Asyndeton

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Omitting conjunctions between phrases, words, clauses

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Chiasmus

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Sentence pattern is repeated but in reverse order "the land was ours before we were the land's"

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Diacope

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Repetition of a word or phrase after an intervening word or phrase

Ex: we will do it, I tell you, we will do it.

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Enumeratio

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Making a subject more significant by dividing it into its parts - "I love her eyes, her haur, her nose, her cheeks, her lips."

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Hypophora

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Raising and responding to one's own question

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Litotes

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"You're not wrong"

Understatement, qualifying a statement by negating the opposite

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Metonymy

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From "changed label"

giving a thing/concept a different name symbolic of it, ex. The White House instead of the US Government

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Polysyndeton

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Deliberate and excessive use of conjunctions to build up a sense of persistence or intensity

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Syllogism

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If A then B, if B then C, if A then C

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Synecdoche

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Part stands for whole, whole for a part.

Ex: head of cattle=entire cow