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| using the same grammatical tense throughout writing | ||
| establishes a clear, contrasting relationghip between two ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing them | ||
| reversing the order of repeated words to intensify the final formulation, present alternatives, or show contrast | ||
| reverse parallelism; an AB structure is followed by a BA structure, (ex: "What is learned unwillingly will be forgotten gladly." is turned into "What is learned unwillingly will be gladly forgotten.") | ||
| consists of a word, phrase, or whole sentence inserted as an aside in the middle of another sentence | ||
| a noun or noun substitute placed next to another noun to be described or defined (appositive can be placed before or after the noun) | ||
| consists of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses; gives the effect of unpremeditated multiplicity of an extemporaneous rather than a labored account | ||
| the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construstion grammatically complete; a sudden leap from one topic to another | ||
| the use of a conjunction between each word, phrase, or clause and is thus structurally the opposite of asyndeton. | ||
| asserts or emphasizes something by pointedly seeming to pass over, ignore, or deny it. (ex: we are not going to talk about the horrible decision the president made.) | ||
| the recurrence of initial consonant sounds (ex: really rad rabbits) | ||
| similar vowel sounds repeated in successive or proximate words containing different consonants (ex: weigh, say, lay, etc.) | ||
| repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, orntences, commonly in conjunction with climax and with parallelism | ||
| forms the counterpart to anaphora because the repetition of the same word or words comes at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences | ||
| repeats the last word of one phrase, clause, or sentence at or very near the beginning of the next can be generated in series for the sake of beauty | ||
| consists of arranging words, clauses, or sentences in the order of increasing importance, weight, or emphasis. | ||
| repeats the beginning word of a clause or sentence at the end (ex: Water, yes only water.) | ||
| repetition of one word for emphasis | ||
| substitutes for a particular attribute; the name of a famous person recognized for that attribute; often cliche | ||
| several similar rhetorical devices, all involving a grammatically correct linkage of two or more part of speech by another part of speech; one subject with two or more verbs, a verb with two or more direct objects, etc. | ||
| consists of raising one or more questions and then proceeding to answer them (ex: asking questions at beginning of paragraph and using the paragraph to answer them) | ||
| compares two different things by speaking of one in terms of the other | ||
| a type of metaphor in which the part stands for the whole, the whole for a part, the genus for the species, the species for the genus, the material for the thing we made, etc. | ||
| another form of metaphor; very similar to synecdoche, the thing chosen for metaphorical image is closely associated with the subject with which it is to be compared | ||
| metaphorically represents an animal or inanimate object as having human attributes-forms of character, feelings, behavior | ||
| compares two things, for the purpose of explaining or clarifying some unfamiliar or difficult idea; which are alike in several aspects | ||
| the use of one word class as if it were a member of another, thus altering its meaning (ex: he had a good cry) | ||
| the use of words whose pronunciation imitates the sound of the word describes (ex. Buss, slam, pow, crunch, sizzle) | ||
| the counterpart of understatement deliberately exaggerates conditions for emphasis or effect. *should not be used much in formal writing | ||
| a particular form of understatement; generated by denying the opposite or contrary of the word which otherwise would be used |
