A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples

A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples NOTE: FIGURE OF SPEECH : A mode of expression in which words are used out of their literal meaning or out of their ordinary use in order to add beauty or emotional intensity or to transfer the poet's sense impressions by comparing or identifying one thing with another that has a meaning familiar to the reader. Some important figures of speech are: simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole and symbol. Alliteration: repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence. *Let us go forth to lead the land we love. J. F. Kennedy, Inaugural Betty bought some butter but the butter was bitter so Betty bought some better butter to make the bitter butter better. “What would the world be, once bereft/Of wet and wildness?” (Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Inversnaid”) 'She sells seashells by the seashore' Anacoluthon: lack of grammatical sequence; a change in the grammatical construction within the same sentence. *Agreements entered into when one state of facts exists -- are they to be maintained regardless of changing conditions? J. Diefenbaker Anadiplosis: ("doubling back") the rhetorical repetition of one or several words; specifically, repetition of a word that ends one clause at the beginning of the next. *Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state; servants of fame; and servants of business. Francis Bacon *Whene'er Anaphora: the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines. *We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender. Churchill. Her love made her live, her love made her grieve