The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words.
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.
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An exclamatory sentence, or striking reflection, which sums up or concludes a discourse.
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A beginning; an introduction; especially, the introductory part of a discourse or written composition, which prepares the audience for…
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; rehearsal; recital.
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.Exhortation.
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument.
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.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…
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.A reasoned case against the position being discussed.
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.A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise en…
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.A repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses.
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.An opposition or contrast of words or sentiments occurring in the same sentence; as, "The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himse…
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.An inversion of the order of words or phrases, when repeated or subsequently referred to in a sentence
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion.
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters.
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.Same as Anaphora.
Used in the same subject area: Rhetoric, Literature and rhetoric.
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A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: exclamatory, sentence, striking, reflection, sums.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: exclamatory, sentence, striking, reflection, sums.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: exclamatory, sentence, striking, reflection, sums.A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It produces a ridi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: exclamatory, sentence, striking, reflection, sums.An antithesis in which the members are repeated in inverse order.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: exclamatory, sentence, striking, reflection, sums.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: exclamatory, sentence, striking, reflection, sums.The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: exclamatory, sentence, striking, reflection, sums.To shut up; to inclose.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: exclamatory, sentence, striking, reflection, sums.One who concludes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: exclamatory, sentence, striking, reflection, sums.To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: exclamatory, sentence, striking, reflection, sums.Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: exclamatory, sentence, striking, reflection, sums.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: exclamatory, sentence, striking, reflection, sums.
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