About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 71. Chapters: Kenning, Metaphor, Metonymy, Oxymoron, Allegory, Simile, Sound bite, Apostrophe, Hyperbaton, Buzzword, Anastrophe, Literary consonance, Glossary of rhetorical terms, Irony, Ekphrasis, Weasel word, List of metonyms, Stylistic device, Allusion, Hardworking families, Anaphora, Rhetorical question, Loaded language, Hendiatris, Ipse-dixitism, Bad apples excuse, Grapevine, Homeoteleuton, Apophasis, Litotes, Description, Metalepsis, Aureation, Protrepsis and paraenesis, Asyndeton, Glittering generality, Enallage, Exergasia, Bomphiologia, Antonomasia, Hendiadys, Priamel, Rhetorical device, Hysteron proteron, Antanaclasis, Modes of persuasion, Emotive conjugation, Historical present, Hypophora, Anadiplosis, Question dodging, Ipse dixit, List of polysemes, Understatement, Innuendo, Metaphor and metonymy, Personification, Encomium, Illth, Hyperbole, Diairesis, Rhetorical stance, Gregueria, Epizeuxis, Marketroid, Meiosis, Figura etymologica, Dissoi Logoi, Ad captandum, Accumulatio, Isocolon, Nimism, Symploce, Hypocatastasis, Appeal to advantage, Apokoinu construction, Tautophrase, Auxesis, Anangeon, Aphorismus, Enumeratio, Homeoptoton, Hook, Parisosis, Trope of Litotes. Excerpt: Rhetorical Theory is a subject rife with jargon and special terminology. This page explains commonly used rhetorical terms in alphabetical order. The brief definitions here are intended to serve as a quick reference rather than an in-depth discussion. For more information, click the terms. Irony (from the Ancient Greek, meaning dissimulation or feigned ignorance) is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or situation in which there is a sharp incongruity or discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident intention of words or actions. Ironic statements (verbal irony) typically imply a meaning in opposition to their literal meaning. A situati...
