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Ethos
credibility, trust
Logos
Consistency, Logic
Pathos
emotions, imagination
Allusion
a reference to someone or something well known
Anaphora
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several clauses
Chiasmus
Where words, grammatical constructions, concepts are repeated in reverse order.
Diacope
A world/phrase repeated after a brief interruption
Double epithet
two words of identical meaning joined by a conjunction
Epistrophe
When u end sentences w the same word/phrase, opposite of anaphora
epizeuxis
the repetition of a word or phrase in immediate succession for emphasis
Litotes
a figure of speech where an ideas expressed by negating its opposite, often using double negatives, such as
Merism
Where something isn’t named but all of its parts are:
Parallelism
the use of similar structures in two or more phrases or clauses to create balance and rhythm.
Polyptoton
repeated use of one word as different parts of speech,
Pretorition
a figure of speech that intentionally draws attention to something by pretending to ignore it.
rhetorical ?
asking a question when the answer is self evident
tricolon
a figure of speech consisted of 3 clearly defined parts,
tricolon crescens
A tricolon in which each of the three parts builds in intensity or importance.
