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A repetition of a phrase at the beginning of a successive clause.
What is Anaphora?
These chocolates are the devil's food, but they are so heavenly.
What is Antithesis?
an appeal to logic or reason
What is Logos?
I'm not just invested in this community - I love every building, every business, every hard-working member of this town.
What is Pathos?
A figure of speech in which a word is substituted for the whole.
In every cry of every Man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear
~William Blake
What is Anaphora?
An appeal to emotion.
What is Pathos?
It's a matter of common sense that people deserve to be treated equally. The Constitution calls it 'self-evident.' Why, then, should I have been denied a seat because of my disability
What is Logos?
Repetition of conjunctions in close succession.
What is Polysndeton?
We have over two thousand feet on the ground in their kingdom. We cannot lose.
What is Syncechdoche?
An appeal to credibility, ethics, or moral principles
What is Ethos?
If we don't act now, all of the Florida Panthers will be gone within our children's lifetime.
The omission of the conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinating words or clauses.
What is Asyndeton?
we 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.
~John F. Kennedy
What is Asyndeton?
AN appeal to time or place
What is Karios?
If you're still unsure, please consider that my advanced degree and fieldwork speak for themselves.
What is Ethos?
The rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangement of words, clauses, or sentences.
What is Antithesis?
Her name, that was as fresh
As Dian’s visage, is now begrimed and black... If there be cords or knives,
Poison, or fire, or suffocating streams,
I’ll not endure it. Would I were satisfied!
~Shakespeare
What is Polysyndeton?
Devices in rhetoric that classify the speaker's appeal to the audience.
What are Rhetorical Appeals?
I am your best friend. You know me better than anyone else, and my turtle is depressed. I really need the money to pay for her therapy.