Rhetorical Vocabulary

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alliteration

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repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence

Hint 1

let us go 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 both sides 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 begginning of successice phrases, clauses, or lines

Hint 3

not as a call to bear arms, through 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------but as what you can do for your country.

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antithesis

Back 5

opposition or contrast, of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction

Hint 5

we shall support any friend oppose any fire

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archaic diction

Back 6

old-fashioned or out dated 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, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success 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 niether can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from out present couse------- 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 mankinds final war.

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hortative sentence

Back 9

sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to action

Hint 9

let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide 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 this 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 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 contrast

Hint 12

we are the heirs of that first rebolution. Let the word go forth... that the torch has been passed to a new heneration of americans--- born in the century. [emphasis added]

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metaphor

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

Hint 13

and if a beachhead of cooperation may puch 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 fellw citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course

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oxymoron

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paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict on 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 sides, 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 whos main clause is withheld until the end

Hint 17

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

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personification

Back 18

attribution of a lifelike quality to an 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 gettin and 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 incongruos, meanings

Hint 20

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