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100
The purpose of this rhetorical scheme is to add balance and rhythm to sentences giving ideas a smoother flow and thus can be persuasive because of the repetition it employs
What is parallelism
100
_______ is a figure of speech in which parallelism is reinforced by members that are of the same length.
What is isocolon
100
The following statement is an example of_______ "Patience is bitter, but it has a sweet fruit."
What is an example of antithesis
100
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is an alliteration
100
A word or words used to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way
What is zeugma
200
writing that uses conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses to produce a hurried rhythm in the sentence
What is asyndeton
200
inversion of the usual order of words.
What is anastrophe
200
"They lived and laughed and loved and left" is an example of this
What is polysyndeton
200
a mark used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases
What is a parenthesis
200
the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences.
What is an epistrophe
300
repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect in order to emphasize certain words or phrases
What is anaphora
300
the rhetorical repetition of the last word or words of one phrase or sentence at the beginning of the next.
What is anadiplosis
300
"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better." is an example of ______
What is antimetabole
300
this _______ encourages readers to supply what isn't there by stressing heavily what is.
What is ellipsis
300
a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases, as in “He went to the country, to the town went she.”
What is chiasmus
400
A question asked for effect with no answer expected
What is erotema
400
a strategy used in which a speaker raises a question and then immediately answers it.
What is hypophora
400
"Have you no shame, coming in as Gandhi and stuffing yourself with Buffalo wings? Why didn't you come as FDR and go around with crazy legs?"(George Segal as Jack Gallow in "Halloween, Halloween." Just Shoot Me! 2002) is an example of _____
What is epiplexis
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