English Rhetoric

abstract advertising allegory alliteration allusions anadiplosis anaphora anticlimax antithesis antonomasia aposiopesis arguments Aristotle assonance asyndeton Athens audience beautiful Cassiodorus century chiasmus classical rhetoric clause climax collocation common concrete connotations consonance dead denotation device discourse effect emotions emphasized English rhetoric epiphora euphemism example express figures of speech following sentences Greek word heart human hyperbole ideas important innuendo involve irony Isocrates Kenneth Burke kind literal literary living Look loose sentence meaning metaphor metonymy mind noun one's onomatopoeia orator oratory oxymoron parallelism parody periodic sentence person personification persuasion phrases Plato poetry political polysyndeton Press primary term principles proverb purpose reader refers repetition rhetorical functions rhetorical question rhetoricians secondary term sense Shakespeare Shanghai short sentences simile Socrates Sophists sound speaker style stylistic substitutes syllepsis symbols synecdoche synesthesia syntactic teaching things thought transferred epithet truth understand verbs zeugma