Rhetoric II Flashcards Benbenek

anadiplosis

Ending a sentence and beginning the next with the same word.

anadiplosis example

Excellant performance is standard. Standard performance...

chiasmus

reverse syntax in 2nd half of sentence

chiasmus example

By day the frolic, and the dance by night

antimetabole

reverses exact syntax order, same words

antimetabole example

Don't eat to live, live to eat.

ellipsis

omitting the implied repetition in parallel language

ellipsis example

The Europeans killed 6 soldiers, the Amercians 8.

epanalepsis

ending and beginning a sentance with the same word or phrase.

epanalepsis example

Common sense is not so common. An eye for an eye.

polysyndeton

many conjunctions.

polysyndeton example

intro to Gatsby's party (cake and cookies and punch and dresses and wine and people and a pool and dancing and peaches and plumbs and oranges and....)

asyndeton

missing a conjunction at the end of a list.

asyndeton example

I bought peaches, apples, oranges.

antistrophe

repetition at end of sentences/phrases

antistrophe example

Keats wrote ______ before he was 24. He wrote _____ before he was 24. He also wrote ______ before he was 24.

synechdoche

refering to something by just a part

synechdoche example

All hands on deck.

metonymy

refering to something by a closely associated symbol.

metonymy example

The white house spoke today, three badges arrived at the scene, the crown announced the new tax