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Ploce

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, but also its peculiar attribute or quality; as, "His wife's a wife indeed."

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Repetition 76% connected

The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration.

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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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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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Epiphora noun · 78% connection

repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc.

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Abduction noun · 78% connection

the criminal act of capturing and carrying away by force a family member; if a man's wife is abducted it is a crime against the family…

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Affinity noun · 78% connection

Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -…

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Attributive adjective · 78% connection

Attributing; pertaining to, expressing, or assigning an attribute; of the nature of an attribute.

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Brother-in-law noun · 78% connection

The brother of one's husband or wife; also, the husband of one's sister; sometimes, the husband of one's wife's sister.

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Burden noun · 78% connection

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…

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Concubine noun · 78% connection

A wife of inferior condition; a lawful wife, but not united to the man by the usual ceremonies, and of inferior condition. Such were H…

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Condonation noun · 78% connection

Forgiveness, either express or implied, by a husband of his wife or by a wife of her husband, for a breach of marital duty, as adulter…

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Deed verb · 78% connection

Fact; reality; -- whence we have indeed.

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Dingdong noun · 78% connection

The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.

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Emphasis noun · 78% connection

A peculiar impressiveness of expression or weight of thought; vivid representation, enforcing assent; as, to dwell on a subject with g…

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Emphatical adjective · 78% connection

Uttered with emphasis; made prominent and impressive by a peculiar stress of voice; laying stress; deserving of stress or emphasis; fo…

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Epizeuxis noun · 78% connection

A figure by which a word is repeated with vehemence or emphasis, as in the following lines: -

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