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FlashCards por Fionnghuala Malone, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por Fionnghuala Malone
mais de 10 anos atrás
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| Questão | Responda |
| 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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