Rhetorical Terms

260572730	Connotation	An idea that is implied or suggested. EX: "A rose by any other name smells as sweet." if you called them "Stench Blossoms."
264368038	Denotation	Direct or dictionary meaning of a word. EX: "Vizzini: He didn't fall? Inconceivable. Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
264412831	Diction	Style of speaking or writing or word choice> EX: Effervescent
264412832	Syntax	The arrangement of words in a sentence. EX: "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."
264412833	Parallelism	Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses. EX: "The more we do, the more we can do"
258791125	Chiasmus	Second half of an expression is balanced against the first with the parts reversed. EX:"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."
260554527	Isocolon	Sentences of approximately equal length and corresponding structure. EX: "Nothing that's beautiful hides its face. Nothing that's honest hides its name."
264412834	Antithesis ( Juxtaposition)	Contrasting ideas in balanced phrases or clauses. EX: "Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing."
260554525	Zeugma	Use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one. EX: Zeus hurled his thunder bolt and his anger
260572729	Bathos	A change from a serious subject to a disappointing one. EX: "I should say this--that Pat doesn't have a mink coat. But she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat. And I always tell her that she'd look good in anything."
264412835	Asyndeton	Writing style that omits conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. EX: "He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac."
264412836	Polysyndeton	Sentence style that employs many coordinating conjunctions. EX: "Steel and wire and rubber and plastic, and electricity and oil and petrol and water, and the toffee papers you pushed down the crack in the back seat last Sunday."
258791127	Paraleipsis	Emphasizing a point by seeming to pass over it. EX: A pair of lips sealed = not talking
264412837	Alliteration	Repetition of an initial consonant sound. EX: "You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife."
260572731	Assonance	Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words. EX: "It beats . . . as it sweeps . . . as it cleans!"
264412838	Consonance	The repetition of consonant sounds; more specifically, the repetition of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words. EX: "Great, or good, or kind, or fair, I will ne'er the more despair"
264412839	Onomatopoeia	Use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. EX: "Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime."
258773967	Anaphora	Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. EX: I have a dream MLK JR.
258773966	Anadiplosis	Repetition of the last word of one line or clause to begin the next. EX: Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task.
258773968	Antistrophe/ Epistrophe	Same word or phrase is repeated at the end of successive clauses, sentences, or lines. EX: Where affections bear rule, their reason is subdued, honesty is subdued......
260572728	Metaphor	Comparison not using like or as. EX:"I Feel Like Dying"
264412840	Simile	Comparison using like or as. EX: "Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong."
264412841	Personification	An inanimate object or abstraction is given human qualities or abilities. EX: The wind stood up and gave a shout.
264412842	Apostrophe	Some absent or nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding. EX: "O western wind, when wilt thou blow That the small rain down can rain?"
264412843	Hyperbole	Exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect; an extravagant statement. EX: He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus.
264412844	Understatement	A writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is. EX: "I am just going outside and may be some time."
264412845	Verbal Irony	A statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea. EX: "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room."
260544386	Metonymy/ Synecdoche	One word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated. EX: All Hands on Deck
258791128	Paranormasia	Punning, playing with words EX :I used to be a tap dancer until I fell in the sink
260544384	Litotes	Understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary). EX: " i was not a little upset" vs, " i was very upset"
258791129	Synethesia	Which one sense modality is described or characterized in terms of another, such as "a bright sound" or "a quiet color."
260554524	Paradox	Statement appears to contradict itself. EX: "The swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot."
260544385	Oxymoron	Contradictory terms appear side by side. EX: Civil War, Jumbo Shrimp, Controlled Ciaos
264412846	Neologism	Use of new words or new senses of existing words. EX: That guys a tool
258791130	Euphemism	An inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit. EX: Died vs. Passed away
264412847	Circumlocution	The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language to avoid getting to the point. EX: Horse- its like a pony but bigger, and i goes NEH
264426087	Inductive	A method of reasoning that moves from specific instances to a general conclusion. EX: Duck tape fixes everything. My lamp is broken, therefore duck tape can fix my lamp.
264426088	Deductive	A method of reasoning from the general to the specific. EX:Everything made of copper conducts electricity. (Premise) This wire is made of copper. (Premise) This wire will conduct electricity. (Conclusion)
258773969	Syllogism	Deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. EX: Major premise: All books from that store are new. Minor premise: These books are from that store. Conclusion: Therefore, these books are new.
258791126	Non-Sequitur	Something that does not logically follow. EX :My cat doesn't have a tail. Therefore, all cats that have tails aren't cats.
264426089	Pacing	The speed at which the story progresses based on dialog, descriptions, flashbacks etc.....
258773965	Allegory	An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances. EX: Extended Metaphor
260572732	Allusion	Brief, usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event--real or fictional. EX: "I violated the Noah rule: predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does."
264426090	Foreshadowing	The presentation of details, characters, or incidents in a narrative in such a way that later events are prepared for (or "shadowed forth"). EX: The witches in the opening scene of Shakespeare's Macbeth foreshadow the evil events that will follow.
264426091	Mood	The dominant impression or emotional atmosphere evoked by the text.
264426092	Tone	A writer's attitude toward subject, audience, and self.
264426093	Aphorism	A statement of a truth or opinion. EX: "If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got."
260554526	Apotheosis	Model of excellence or perfection of a kind. EX: One having no equal
258791131	Colloquialism	Informal expression that is more often used in casual conversation than in formal speech or writing. EX:She was recently dumped by her fiance