C2 · Mastery
Rhetorical Figures
Identify repetition, contrast, imagery and other rhetorical devices, then explain how they shape an argument or a reader's response.
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- Words & phrases
- 31
- Lessons
- 3
- Conversations
- 1
- Readings
- 1
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- a parable, an illustrative comparison
- a hyperbole (Greek term)
- a litotes (affirmation by negating the opposite)
- a metonymy
- anaphora (repetition at the start of clauses)
- personification (of abstractions as persons)
- a euphemism
- a symbol
- an allusion
- a pleonasm (redundant repetition of meaning)
- an oxymoron
- a synecdoche (part standing for the whole)
- emphasis (as a rhetorical device)
- a three-part rhetorical progression, sometimes a tricolon
- a chiasmus (mirrored, crosswise structure)
- a stylistic figure, a figure of style
- an epiphora (repetition at the end of clauses)
- an asyndeton (omission of conjunctions)
- a tautology, a statement true by its logical form
- redundant doubling, saying the same thing twice (literally 'double confectionery')
- an apostrophe (direct address to an absent person or an abstraction)
- an anticlimax
- an ellipsis (omission of words that are understood)
- a parallelism (repetition of the same sentence structure)
- a cliché
- a trope (a word used in a transferred sense)
- a periphrasis, a circumlocution
- a figure of speech, a verbal image
- a garbled or overblown turn of phrase, a howler
- the vehicle (the image half of a metaphor)
- a tautology, a repetition of the same meaning
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Your lessons, step by step.
- Lesson 1
Rhetorical Figures
- Lesson 2
Left and Right Dislocation
- Lesson 3
Finding Figures in a Speech
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