Glossary of rhetorical terms
Glossary of rhetorical terms
We currently have 176 entries in this glossary.
The emphasis or summary of previously made points or inferences by excessive praise or accusation....
Wit or wordplay used in rhetoric.
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When a verb is placed at the beginning or the end of a sentence instead of in the middle. For example (from Rhetorica ad Herennium), "At the beginnin...
The examination of symbolic expression to determine its rhetorical possibilities....
Giving a cause or a reason....
A term used by the Italian Humanists of the Renaissance to describe the source of emotions or passions in the human mind....
Different words beginning with the same letter....
The breaking down of a subject into its alternatives....
An ambiguous statement used in making puns....
An all-purpose term for all the ways an argument can be expanded and enhanced....
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