Ruth: alternatives and connections

The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words.

A beginning; an introduction; especially, the introductory part of a discourse or written composition, which prepares the audience for…

The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; rehearsal; recital.

Exhortation.

The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument.

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…

(rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is given less importance by the name given it than it merits.; "The last and perhaps t…

A reasoned case against the position being discussed.

a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)

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…

A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise en…

A repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses.

An opposition or contrast of words or sentiments occurring in the same sentence; as, "The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himse…

An inversion of the order of words or phrases, when repeated or subsequently referred to in a sentence

Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters.

the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greate…

Same as Anaphora.

The watery eye; a disease in which the tears accumulate in the eye, and trickle over the cheek.