Rhetorical Devices in Writing
- Anaphora - repeats a Word or phrase in successive phrases - "If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh?" (Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare)
- Antanagoge - places a criticism and compliment together to lessen the impact - The car is not pretty but it runs great.
- Antiphrasis - uses a Word with an opposite meaning - The Chihuahua was named Goliath.
- Epanalepsis - repeats something from the beginning of a sentence at the end - My ears heard what you said but I couldn't believe my ears.
- Oxymoron - a two Word paradox - near miss, seriously funny
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