Rhetorical Strategies

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Antithesis

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the juxtaposition contrasting ideas, often in parallel structures.

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Apposition

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Placing side by side two coordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification for the first.

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Assonance

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The repetition of similar vowel sounds preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words.

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Asyndeton

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Deliberate omission of conjunction between a series of related clauses

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Chissmus

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"The Criss-Cross." The reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses.

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Polypoton

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Repetition of words derived for the same roots.

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Polysideton

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The deliberate use of conjunction.

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Alligory

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An extended or continued metaphor.

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Antinaclausis

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Repition of a word in 2 sentences.

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Antimaria

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The substitution of one part of speech for another.

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Anaphora

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Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginnings of successive clauses.

We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing-grounds, we shall fight in the folds and in the streets.

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Anadiplosis

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Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause.

Labor and care are rewarded with success, success produces confidence, confidence relaxes industry.

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Alliteration

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Repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words.

Already American vessels had been searched, seized, and sunk.

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Anastrophe

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Inversion of the natural or usual word order.

I got, so far as the immediate moment was concerned, away.

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Antimetabole

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Repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order.

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

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Ellipsis

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Deliberate omission of a word or group of words, which are readily implied by the context.

And he to England shall along with you.

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Isocolon

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When the parallel elements are similar not only in structure but in length.

His purpose was to impress the ignorant, to perplex the dubious, and to confound the scrupulous.

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Epistrophe

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Repetition of the same word or group of words at the end of successive clauses.

I'll have my bond! Speak not against my bond! I have sworn an oth that i will have my bond!

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Parallelism

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

He tried to make the law, clear, precise, and equitable.

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Epanalepsis

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Repetition of the end of a clause of the word that occured at the beginning of the clause.

Blood hath brought blood, and blows have answered blows.

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Auresis

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Magnifying the importance or gravity of something by referring to it with a disproportionate name.

Referring to a scratch as a wart

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Erotoma

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Rhetorical question, asking a question nor for purpose of eliciting.

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Hyperbole

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The use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.

My left leg weights 3 tons

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Irony

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Use of a word in such a way as to convey a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word

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Litotes

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Deliberate use of understatement, not to deceive someone, but to enhance the impressiveness of what we say.

It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on my brain.