IB English Language and Literature, Rhetoric terminology

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Rhetorical question

A question that does not require an answer. Often used in irony or sarcasm.

Rule of three

Uses similar elements three times to emphasize. Often it involves a sense of climax.

Hyperbole

Making things bigger than what they are for effect. To exaggerate.

Emotive language

Use of emotionally charged words to evoke a strong reaction with the reader.

Alliteration

When two or more words start with the same sounds.

Entreaties

Asking the reader to (not) do something.

Anaphora

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences three or more times.

Use of imperative

An order for someone to do something. (The listener/reader)

Threats

Warn about consequences by being quite strict and direct.

Conditional statements

State that something will (not) happen if something else does

Personal appeal

Make the listener do something, especially for you

Analogy

A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based.

Simile

A figure of speech that compares two different things using the words "like" or "as" to highlight similarities between them.

Metaphor

A figure of speech that directly compares two unrelated things by stating that one is the other, without using "like" or "as."

Epistrophe

A number of sentences or clauses that end with the same word.

Anadiplosis

Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next.