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kairos |
the right time to speak/write; advantageous, exact, or critical time; a window of time during which an action is most effective |
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periphrasis |
wordiness; piling up more words than necessary to make the point seem important or persuasive |
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paralepsis |
the rhetorician refuses to mention something, all the while doing so. ex: listing things about hate speech |
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enthymeme |
the rhetor places probable premises together to establish a likely conclusion. ex: jack kennedy |
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anaphora |
the same word repeated at the beginning of successive clauses, phrases, or sentences. ex: on this day |
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antistrophe |
repetition of an ending word or phrase. ex: when i was a child |
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homoioteleuton |
the rhetor repeats words with similar endings. ex: people in governments act dishonorably, despicably, and offensively |
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ratiocinatio |
reasoning through questions, posing a series of basic, seemingly obvious questions |
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antimetable |
words repeated in transposed order. ex: ask not what your country can do for you |
