
Schemes - word order is altered from the usual or expected |
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| Balance | parallelism, chiasmus, climax, antithesis |
| Word Order | anastrophe |
| Addition | apposition, parenthesis |
| Omission | zeugma, asyndeton, polysyndeton |
| Repetition | anadiplosis, polyptoton, anaphora |
| Sound | alliteration, assonance, consonance * |
I know most of these terms are new to you. Even some that you think you know may not mean what you expect. Use your notes to complete the following crossword puzzle. Click on the number for the word you want to fill in. The clues appear at the top of the screen. Using a hint will give you one letter of the word at a time, but it will also reduce your score by a point.
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Necessary Links:
The website entitled
Silva Rhetoricae:
The Forest of Rhetoric provided by Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University
is amazing! Use the frames in both margins to look up concepts within
rhetorical analysis and individual rhetorical terms.
The webpage,
A Glossary of
Rhetorical Terms with Examples, is exactly that. It is easily
navigable and contains both definitions and examples of most of the terms listed
above.
Rhetoric Resources at [Georgia] Tech has some very useful pages. The ones on noteworthy figures within the field of rhetoric (such as Kenneth Burke and Stephen Toulmin) are challenging, but worth scanning. Additionally, please view the terms pages for at least the terms we've been discussing in class.
*Information in the schemes table was taken from a handout entitled "Style Analysis: Rhetorical Embellishment." Sadly, the author is unknown.