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Anastrophe

An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed.

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Inversion 92% connected

The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Allocution noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts

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Exordium noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) the introductory section of an oration or discourse

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Narration noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth

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Parenesis noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) exhortation; admonition.; "In Deuteronomy it is often impossible to separate parenesis from history."

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Peroration noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration; "he summarized his main points in his peroration"

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Ploce noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) repetition to gain special emphasis or extend meaning

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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

an argument offered in opposition to another argument

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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

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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Anaphora noun · 78% connection

repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

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Antithesis noun · 78% connection

exact opposite; "his theory is the antithesis of mine"

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Chiasmus noun · 78% connection

inversion in the second of two parallel phrases

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Commiseration noun · 78% connection

a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity"

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Correspondence noun · 78% connection

similarity by virtue of corresponding

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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

repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

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Adjunct noun · 78% connection

A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in i…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inversion, natural, order, words, echoed.
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Anallagmatic adjective · 78% connection

Not changed in form by inversion.

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Antimetathesis noun · 78% connection

A rhetorical figure resulting from a reverted arrangement in the last clause of a sentence of the two principal words of the clause pr…

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Chain noun · 78% connection

a series of hills or mountains; "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range"

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Chain of mountains noun · 78% connection

a series of hills or mountains; "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range"

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Chain wheel unknown · 78% connection

An inversion of the chain pump, by which it becomes a motor driven by water.

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Derivative noun · 78% connection

A chord, not fundamental, but obtained from another by inversion; or, vice versa, a ground tone or root implied in its harmonics in an…

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Dextrose noun · 78% connection

A sirupy, or white crystalline, variety of sugar, C6H12O6 (so called from turning the plane of polarization to the right), occurring i…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inversion, natural, order, words, echoed.
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Echo verb · 78% connection

To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations.

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Entropium noun · 78% connection

The inversion or turning in of the border of the eyelids.

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Folio noun · 78% connection

A leaf containing a certain number of words, hence, a certain number of words in a writing, as in England, in law proceedings 72, and…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inversion, natural, order, words, echoed.
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Hyperbaton noun · 78% connection

A figurative construction, changing or inverting the natural order of words or clauses; as, "echoed the hills" for "the hills echoed."

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