rhetorical device

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rhetorical device - a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)rhetoric - study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)device - something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effectrhetoric - using language effectively to please or persuadeanacoluthia, anacoluthon - an abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to anotherasyndeton - the omission of conjunctions where they would normally be usedrepetition - the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical deviceanastrophe, inversion - the reversal of the normal order of wordsantiphrasis - the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal sense (especially in irony)antithesis - the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balanceantinomasia - substitution of a title for a nameapophasis - mentioning something by saying it will not be mentionedaposiopesis - breaking off in the middle of a sentence (as by writers of realistic conversations)apostrophe - address to an absent or imaginary personcatachresis - strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')chiasmus - inversion in the second of two parallel phrasesclimax - arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulnessconversion - interchange of subject and predicate of a propositionecphonesis, exclamation - an exclamatory rhetorical device; "O tempore! O mores"emphasis - special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g.enallage - a substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I')epanorthosis - immediate rephrasing for intensification or justification; "Seems, madam! Nay, it is"epiplexis - a rhetorical device in which the speaker reproaches the audience in order to incite or convince themhendiadys - use of two conjoined nouns instead of a noun and modifierhypallage - reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in `her beauty's face')hyperbaton - reversal of normal word order (as in `cheese I love')hypozeugma - use of a series of subjects with a single predicatehypozeuxis - use of a series of parallel clauses (as in `I came, I saw, I conquered')hysteron proteron - reversal of normal order of two words or sentences etc. (as in `bred and born')litotes, meiosis - understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary); "saying `I was not a little upset' when you mean `I was very upset' is an example of litotes"onomatopoeia - using words that imitate the sound they denoteparaleipsis, paralepsis, paralipsis, preterition - suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omittedparegmenon - juxtaposing words having a common derivation (as in `sense and sensibility')polysyndeton - using several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in `he ran and jumped and laughed for joy')prolepsis - anticipating and answering objections in advancewellerism - a comparison comprising a well-known quotation followed by a facetious sequelfigure of speech, trope, image, figure - language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

rhetorical device

rhetorical device

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noun a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)

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