3828171112 | Anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines. ex: not a call to bear arms, though arms we need - not a call to battle, though embattled we are | 0 | |
3828171487 | Antimetabole | repetition of words in reverse order ex: Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country | 1 | |
3828171774 | Antithesis | opposition or contrast of words or ideas in a balanced or parallel construction ex: We shall support any friend, oppose any foe | 2 | |
3828172170 | Asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate clauses, phrases, or words ex: 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 | 3 | |
3828172817 | Cumulative sentences | completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on | 4 | |
3828173516 | Hortative sentence | sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to action | 5 | |
3828173842 | Imperative sentence | used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat | 6 | |
3828174525 | Metaphor | says one thing is another to explain comparison | 7 | |
3828174526 | Metonymy | using a single feature to represent a whole ex: In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course | 8 | |
3828175695 | Zeugma | use of 2 different words in a gramatically similar way but producing different, often incongruous meanings ex: we rode MAX to Portland, and to freedom. | 9 |
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