13746985454 | Periodic Sentences | Beginning with multiple details and ending with main idea | 0 | |
13746988055 | Cumulative Sentences | Beginning with independent clause and adding on phrases | 1 | |
13746996393 | Antithesis | Contrast of thoughts in two clauses or phrases | 2 | |
13747001110 | Asyndeton | Omission of conjunctions between clauses | 3 | |
13747008533 | Polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions | 4 | |
13747017564 | Synecdoche | Part representing a whole | 5 | |
13747023452 | Metonymy | When a name or concept is not called by its given name but by a name associated with it | 6 | |
13747034018 | Aristotelian Triangle | Three main elements of rhetoric | 7 | |
13747045659 | Logos | Appeal to logic | 8 | |
13747048586 | Pathos | Appeal to emotion | 9 | |
13747048587 | Ethos | Appeal to credibility | 10 |
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