Rhetoric Vocab (WCS)

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Rhetoric

effective or persuasive communication

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Anaphora

repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or lines

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Antithesis

opposition, or a contrast of ideas or words in a balanced & parallel construction

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Asyndeton

lack of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words

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Metaphor

implied comparison of two objects that have nothing in common

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climax

an arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of ascending power.  

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Alliteration

repetition of the beginning consonant of several words in a sentence

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Allusion

phrase or segment that refers to another work of art, noted person, or historical document

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Call to Arms

invitation, or appeal to undertake a particular course of action  

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Ethos

ethics or credibility; a trusted source of information

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Logos

Logic; based on factual evidence, to make sense, follows a believable order

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Pathos

emotion; to appeal to human emotions

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Amplification

writer makes a point twice in a row, with greater emphasis, details, or explanation the second time—thus, amplifying it.

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Litotes

Using understatement, along with a double negative

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Parallelism

arrangement of words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures placed side by side, making them similar in form

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Antimetabole

A figure of speech in which words or clauses from the first half of a sentence are repeated in the second half of the sentence in reverse order.

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