Monday, December 8, 2014

Compare


  • Anaphora: repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more sentences or clauses.
  • Antithesis: two opposite or ideas that are introduced in a parallel way.
  • Chiasmus: reversal in the order of words in two parallel phrases.
  • Climax: the last part of a clause is the same as the beginning of the next clause.

  • Dialysis: offers only two choices.
  • Idiom: two words that when combined have a meaning of their own.
  • Metaphor: comparison.
  • Metonymy: uses the part to describe a whole.
  • Multiple-yoking: a single subject is accompanied by multiple verbs, usually arranged in a parallel series.

  • Self-answering questions: rhetorical questions that are asked and soon answered.

  • Speak-around: the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
  • Synecdoche: a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part.