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RHETORICAL DEVICES
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Words which are inaccurate if interpreted literally, but are used to describe. Similes and metaphors are common forms.
What is figurative language?
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What should I do today? Oh, I should go skiing and drink hot coco. 

What is hypophora?

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This rhetorical device involves the direct usage of conjunctions. ex: "The frenzied fields, and doghouses and hills and trees and ditches and gardens."
What is polysyndeton.
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This rhetorical device is a subtype of parallelism. It is defined as the exact repition of words at the beginning of phrases. ex:The I have a dream speech.
What is anaphora.
100

The forest burned with a fire unquenchable.

What is hyperbaton? 

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This rhetorical device involves two unlike things being compared using like or as. ex: Her hair was as red as fire.
What is a simile.
200

The instant gratification monkey is in my brain. The instant gratification monkey prevents me from being productive and instead wants me to always have fun on the dark playground.  

What is distinctio. 

200

I went to the mall, the park, the river, the salon, and, finally home. 

What is enumeratio?

200

This rhetorical device involves an expression that has unusual meaning. ex: To kick the bucket, to break a leg...

What is an idiom.

200
This rhetorical device involves the deliberate exaggeration of a situation. ex: He ate everything in the house.
What is hyperbole.
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The three main types of appeals (The Greek Please)
What is Ehtos, Pathos, Logos
300
a question asked for an effect, and not actually requiring an answer.
What is a rhetorical question?
300

Why did the doctor always write in red pen?

What is...he liked to draw blood

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This rhetorical device involves the usage of one word to govern two. ex: To wage war and peace....
What is zeugma.
300
This rhetorical device involves a direct or indirect reference to somthing which is commonly known. ex:'Christy didn't like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything except the bare necessities'..
What is an Allusion.
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What kind of teacher doesn't fart in public?

A private tutor. 

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This rhetorical device involves the direct omission of conjunctions often producing a rapid tempo. ex: "They dove, splashed, floated, splashed, swam, snorted." (James T. Farrell, Young Lonigan)
What is asyndeton.
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He was tall, dark, handsome.

What is asyndeton?

400
This rhetorical device involves the second part of a sentence meaning the exact opposite than the first part. ex: "Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man." (Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart")
What is antithesis.
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A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity
What is a paradox
500
This rhetorical device involves an understatement in the negative. ex: "I cannot say that I think you are very generous to the ladies; for, whilst you are proclaiming peace and good-will to men, emancipating all nations, you insist upon retaining an absolute power over wives." (Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, May 7, 1776)
What is litotes.
500

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. 

What is antithesis.

500

The man ran a hundred miles, but out of time. 

What is zeugma?

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an example of this device is... "Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune--without the words, And never stops at all,
What is an extended metaphor.
500
This device refers to the way an author chooses to join word into phrases and sentences.
What is syntax.