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Frage | Antworten |
Antithesis | Juxtaposition of opposites |
Apostrophe | When an orator adresses someone who is not actually present or dead |
Anaphora | Repetition of words/phrases at the beginning of sentences or clauses |
Anecdote | A short account or story- perhaps an interesting or amusing incident |
Bathos | Sudden deflation for dramatic effect |
Bias | A preference for a point of view, reflecting preconcieved ideas rather than fact |
Cliche | A word or phrase that has lost its freshness through over use |
Enumeratio | Making a list of thingd to make a point for forcibly |
Epizeuxis | Immediate repetition of a word |
Ethos | Appealing to ethical behaviour, to the audience's sense of decency |
Euphemism | A form of understatement where pleasant terms are used to describe an unpleasant fact |
Hyperbole | Overstatement for obvious effect |
Incrementum | Arranging your words in order of increasing importance, so that your sentence of phrase reaches a climax/crescendo |
Litotes | Understatement for ironic effect |
Logos | Used as a persuasive device - the appeal to reason |
Metonymy | A symbol that comes to represent something |
Oxymoron | Ideas or words that normally convey opposite meanings that are linked together |
Paradox | An apparent contradiction, hence all the more striking by its truth |
Paralellism | Using a series of phrases or sentences that have a similar word order or structure |
Parenthesis | A phrase that is placed between brackets or dashes |
Pathos | When a speaker appeals to the emotions of the audience perhaps by introducing tragic sad or sentimental ideas |
Pun | A play on words |
Rhetorical Question | A question asked only for effect |
Synecdote | When part of something is used to refer to the whole thing |
Synonymia | Repetition of the same idea or concept but in different words |
Traductio | Repetition of the same word throughout the sentence or paragraph |
Tripling | Lists of three, triadic structure. |
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