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Anacoluthon

A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part.

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Allocution noun · 78% connection

The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words.

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Exordium noun · 78% connection

A beginning; an introduction; especially, the introductory part of a discourse or written composition, which prepares the audience for…

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Narration noun · 78% connection

The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; rehearsal; recital.

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Parenesis noun · 78% connection

Exhortation.

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Peroration noun · 78% connection

The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument.

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Ploce noun · 78% connection

A figure in which a word is separated or repeated by way of emphasis, so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it, bu…

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Tapinosis noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is given less importance by the name given it than it merits.; "The last and perhaps t…

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Counterargument noun · 78% connection

A reasoned case against the position being discussed.

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Rhetorical device noun · 78% connection

a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)

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Rhetorical question noun · 78% connection

a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered; "he liked to make his points with rhetorical que…

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Analogy noun · 78% connection

A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise en…

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Anaphora noun · 78% connection

A repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses.

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Antithesis noun · 78% connection

An opposition or contrast of words or sentiments occurring in the same sentence; as, "The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himse…

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Chiasmus noun · 78% connection

An inversion of the order of words or phrases, when repeated or subsequently referred to in a sentence

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Commiseration noun · 78% connection

The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion.

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Correspondence noun · 78% connection

Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters.

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Doctrine of analogy noun · 78% connection

the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greate…

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Epanaphora noun · 78% connection

Same as Anaphora.

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Anacoluthic adjective · 78% connection

Lacking grammatical sequence.

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Apodosis noun · 78% connection

The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clau…

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Appositional adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically.

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Clause noun · 78% connection

A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document.

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Cohesion noun · 78% connection

The act or state of sticking together; close union.

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Comma noun · 78% connection

A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed.

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Complement verb · 78% connection

That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.

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Component verb · 78% connection

Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.

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Constituent adjective · 78% connection

Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.

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Conversion noun · 78% connection

The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.

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Coordinate clause noun · 78% connection

a clause in a complex sentence that is grammatically equivalent to the main clause and that performs the same grammatical function

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Dash verb · 78% connection

To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.

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