(rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts
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An inversion of the order of words or phrases, when repeated or subsequently referred to in a sentence
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(rhetoric) the introductory section of an oration or discourse
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.(rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.(rhetoric) exhortation; admonition.; "In Deuteronomy it is often impossible to separate parenesis from history."
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.(rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration; "he summarized his main points in his peroration"
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.(rhetoric) repetition to gain special emphasis or extend meaning
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.(rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is given less importance by the name given it than it merits.; "The last and perhaps t…
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.an argument offered in opposition to another argument
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.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…
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greate…
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.exact opposite; "his theory is the antithesis of mine"
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity"
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.similarity by virtue of corresponding
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greate…
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc.
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.
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A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter pa…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inversion, order, words, phrases, repeated.An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inversion, order, words, phrases, repeated.A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inversion, order, words, phrases, repeated.A figure in which the same words or ideas are repeated in transposed order.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inversion, order, words, phrases, repeated.A rhetorical figure resulting from a reverted arrangement in the last clause of a sentence of the two principal words of the clause pr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inversion, order, words, phrases, repeated.The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clau…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inversion, order, words, phrases, repeated.The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often re…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inversion, order, words, phrases, repeated.To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inversion, order, words, phrases, repeated.(of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence; "a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inversion, order, words, phrases, repeated.a clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adje…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inversion, order, words, phrases, repeated.The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inversion, order, words, phrases, repeated.To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inversion, order, words, phrases, repeated.
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