8637974124 | Alliteration | repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in sequence | 0 | |
8637982541 | allusion | brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art. | 1 | |
8637990635 | anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a successive phrases, clauses or lines | 2 | |
8638002006 | antimetabole | repetition of words in reverse order | 3 | |
8638011130 | antithesis | opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction | 4 | |
8638020059 | asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinated phrases, clauses, or words. | 5 | |
8638028869 | hortative sentence | Sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action. | 6 | |
8638036767 | inversion | Inverted order of words in a sentence (example: subject-verb-object order) | 7 | |
8638048066 | juxtaposition | placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences. | 8 | |
8638056351 | oxymoron | paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another. | 9 | |
8638068207 | parrallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses. | 10 | |
8638078723 | periodic sentence | sentence whose main clauses is withheld until the end. | 11 | |
8638083349 | rhetorical question | figure of speech in the form of a question posed for the rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer. | 12 | |
8638107219 | synedoche | figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole | 13 | |
8638119270 | ethos | appeal to authority or credentials; emphasis on shared values; creditability; trustworthy | 14 | |
8638119271 | Logos | appeal to reason and logic, often with numbers | 15 | |
8638122447 | Pathos | appeal to emotions, values, desires and homes or fears and prejudices | 16 | |
8638157735 | counterargument | objection or opposing view | 17 | |
8638165388 | SOAPS | Subject, Occasion, Audience, and Purpose | 18 | |
8638178250 | rhetorical triangle | speaker, subject, and audience | 19 |
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