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19 Cards in this Set
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Rhetorical Question |
to ask a question of an audience to engage them without having a response from the audience |
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Emotive Language |
"Imagine being cast out into the street, cold, lonely and frightened" |
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Parallel Structures |
using the same part of speech or syntactic structure in (1) each element of a series (2) before and after coordinating conjunctions or (3) after each of a pair of correlative conjunctions |
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Example of Parallel Structure |
"To show kindness us praiseworthy; to show hatred is evil" |
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Antithesis |
opposition; contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction |
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Example of Antithesis |
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no voice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue" |
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Chiasmus |
two corresponding pairs arranged not in parallels (a,b,a,b) but in inverted order (a,b,b,a) |
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Example of Chiasmus |
"Those gallant men will remain often in my thoughts and in my prayers, always" |
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Sound Patterns |
Should be in threes Ex: Alliteration and Assonance Alliteration |
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Alliteration |
"Callous, calculating cruelty-- is this what we must expect?" |
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Assonance |
"A fine time we all had, too" |
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Contrast |
to compare to point out striking differences Example of Contrast "Sometimes we have to be cruel to be kind" |
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Description and Imagery |
using metaphor, simile, and personification Example of Imagery "While we wait and do nothing, we must not forget that the fuse is already burning" |
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The 'rule of three' |
"When you act, you must act quickly, decisively, and, above ll, fairly" Three makes a complete thought |
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Repetition for effect |
"Evil minds will use evil means" |
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Anaphora |
the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines |
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Diacope |
repetition of a word or phrase broken up by other words or phrases. Cut in two Example of Diacope "They will laugh, indeed they will laugh, at his parchment and his wax" |
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Hyperbole |
an extravagant exaggeration of fact, use whether for serious or comic effect |
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Epicrisis |
a circumstance in which a speaker quotes a passage and comments on it |