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Rhetorical Terms: Definitions & Examples

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Rhetorical Terms: Definitions & Examples. Let us go forth to lead the land we love. repetition of initial consonant sound with several words. alliteration. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Let us go forth to lead the land we love.

Rhetorical Terms: Definitions & ExamplesLet us go forth to lead the land we love.repetition of initial consonant sound with several wordsalliterationLet both sides explore Let both sides for the first time, formulate serious and precise proposalsLet both sides seek to invoke Let both sides unite to heed.similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clausesparallelismIn your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course.using a single feature to represent a wholemetonymyart of persuasion in writing, speaking, and other mediarhetoricWe shall support any friend, oppose any foe.opposition or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel structureantithesisAnd if a beachhead of cooperation may push back a jungle oppostion.Figure of speech that says one thing is another in order to explain by comparisonmetaphor"peaceful revolution"paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one anotheroxymoronLet all sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah.brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of artallusionWe are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forththat the torch has been passes to a new generation of Americansborn in this century.placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrastsjuxtapositionTo that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instuments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support.sentence whose main clause is withheld until the endperiodic sentenceWhere it all will end knows God.a change in normal word order, such as the placement of the verb before the subject inversionWe shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and the streets, we shall fight in the hills.Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or linesanaphoraThe terrorists want to kill Americans!appeal to emotionpathosLet both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to actionhortative sentencearrangement of wordssyntaxWe shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or wordsasyndetonOpportunity knocked on the door.attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or ideapersonificationAny literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consist in the use of words in other than their literal sense; artful dictiontropeAsk not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for you country.repetition of words in reverse orderantimetaboleBut neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror thaat stays the hand of mankind's final war.Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds oncumulative sentenceI have been teaching American literature for over twenty-five years; I promise you this is a book you want to read.appealing to credibility, character, and trustworthinessethosword choicedictionThis term includes such devices as alliteration and assonance (that purposefully arrange sounds) and antithesis, asyndeton, and anaphora etc. (that arrange words for effect) creating artful syntax.schemeappeal to reason using details, examples, facts, statistical data, or expert testimony as supportlogosDon't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreatimperative sentenceHe lost his coat and his temper.a construction in which one word (usually a verb) modifies or governs often in different , sometimes incongruent ways two or more words in a sentencezeugmathee, hither, thou etc. old-fashioned or outdated choice of wordsart of persuasion in writing, speaking, and other wordsrhetoric