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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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