Rhetorical Vocabulary

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Alliteration

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Repitition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence.

Hint 1

Let us fo forth to lead the land we love.

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Allusion

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Brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictious, or to a work of art.

Hint 2

Let beth side unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah.

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Anaphora

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Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines.

Hint 3

Not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are.

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Antimetabole

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Repetition of words in reverse order.

Hint 4

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

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Antithesis

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Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction.

Hint 5

We shall support any friend, oppose any foe.

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Archaic diction

Back 6

Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words.

Hint 6

Beliefs for which our forebears fought.

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Asyndeton

Back 7

Omission of conjuctions between coordinate phrases, clauses or words.

Hint 7

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meent any hardshp, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure survival and the sucess of liberty.

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Cumulative Sentence

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Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence, and then builds and adds on.

Hint 8

But either can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course -- both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war.

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Horative Sentence

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Sentence that exorts, advises, calls to action.

Hint 9

Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divides us.

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Imperative Sentence

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Sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat.

Hint 10

My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

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Inversion

Back 11

Inverted order order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order).

Hint 11

United there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided there is little we can do.

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Juxtaposition

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Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts.

Hint 12

We are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth...that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans -- born in this century

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Metaphor

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Figure of speech that says one thing is another in order to explain by comparison.

Hint 13

And if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion.

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Metonymy

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Using a single feature to represent the whole.

Hint 14

In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of out course.

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Oxymoron

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Paradoxial juxtaposition of words that seemt to contradict one another.

Hint 15

But this peaceful revolution.

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Parallelism

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

Hint 16

Let both sides explore...Let both side, for the first time, formulate serious and precise proposals...Let both sides seek to invoke...Let both sides unite to heed.

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Periodic Sentence

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Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end.

Hint 17

To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best in hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support.

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Personification

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Attribution of a lifelike quality to inanimate object or idea.

Hint 18

With history the final judge of our deeds.

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Rhetorical Question

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Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer.

Hint 19

Will you join in that historic effort?

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Zeugma

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Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way but producing different, often incongrous, meanings.

Hint 20

Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear amrs, though arms we need -- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are -- but a call to bear the burden.