Rhetoric Terminology

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parallelism

a repeated pattern in clause or sentence structure

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anaphora

repetition of a word or phrase at the start of consecutive phrases, clauses, or lines

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epiphora

repetition of a word or phrase at the end of consecutive phrases, clauses, or lines

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anadiplosis

repeating a word from the end of one sentence at the start of the next sentence

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contrast

pronounced difference

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antithesis

opposites

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tricolon

a list of three

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syndetic pair

two words/ideas linked by a conjunction

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rhetorical question

an interrogative that does not require an a response

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hypophora

immediately answering your own question

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emotive vocabulary

lexical choices that evoke specific emotions

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hyperbole

exaggeration

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