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Apostrophe

A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of "Paradise Lost."

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Punctuation 76% connected

The act or art of punctuating or pointing a writing or discourse; the art or mode of dividing literary composition into sentences, and members of a s…

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Ecphonesis noun · 86% connection

An animated or passionate exclamation.

Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric, Spelling and grammar, Punctuation.
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Exclamation noun · 86% connection

A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expres…

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Motion noun · 86% connection

The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, wheth…

Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric, Spelling and grammar, Punctuation.
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Question noun · 86% connection

The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.

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Conversion noun · 85% 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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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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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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Eclipsis noun · 78% connection

omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences

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Em noun · 78% connection

a quad with a square body; "since ‘em quad’ is hard to distinguish from ‘en quad’, printers sometimes called it a ‘mutton quad’"

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Address verb · 78% connection

To aim; to direct.

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Antonomasia noun · 78% connection

The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majest…

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Aposiopesis noun · 78% connection

A figure of speech in which the speaker breaks off suddenly, as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind; as, "I declare t…

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Apposition noun · 78% connection

The act of adding; application; accretion.

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Bolter noun · 78% connection

One who bolts; esp.: (a) A horse which starts suddenly aside. (b) A man who breaks away from his party.

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Bopeep noun · 78% connection

The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out and dr…

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Burst imp. & p. p. · 78% connection

of Burst

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Canvass noun · 78% connection

To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize; as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass a district with ref…

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Catastasis noun · 78% connection

That part of a speech, usually the exordium, in which the orator sets forth the subject matter to be discussed.

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Concionatory adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to preaching or public addresses.

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Discourse noun · 78% connection

The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exe…

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Domain name noun · 78% connection

strings of letters and numbers (separated by periods) that are used to name organizations and computers and addresses on the internet;…

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