Rhetorical Devices

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Check out these behind the scene words representing timeless and evocative phrases like: "Veni, vidi, vici" or "a government of the people, by the people, for the people..." or "ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
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  1. asyndeton
    omission of conjunctions where they would normally be used
  2. superlative
    highest in quality
  3. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  4. hyperbole
    extravagant exaggeration
  5. chiasmus
    inversion in the second of two parallel phrases
  6. spoonerism
    transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words
  7. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  8. palindrome
    a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward
  9. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  10. oxymoron
    conjoined contradictory terms
  11. zeugma
    rhetorical use of a word to govern two or more words
  12. trope
    language used in a nonliteral sense
Created on Sat Jan 11 18:19:38 EST 2014 (updated Tue Jan 14 01:15:53 EST 2014)

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