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| consists of a brief statement of what has been said and what will follow. It might be called a linking, running, or transitional summary, whose function is to keep the discussion ordered and clear in its progress |
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| a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases, as in “He went to the country, to the town went she.” |
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| an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.” |
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| a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as “scepter” for “sovereignty,” or “the bottle” for “strong drink,” or “count heads (or noses)” for “count people.” |
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| a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man |
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| A figure in which the same words or ideas are repeated in transposed order. |
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| a figure of speech in which the speaker raises an objection to his own argument and then immediately answers it. By doing so, he hopes to strengthen his argument by dealing with possible counter-arguments before his audience can raise them |
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| to state or represent less strongly or strikingly than the facts would bear out; set forth in restrained, moderate, or weak terms: The casualty lists understate the extent of the disaster |
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| understatement, esp. that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in “not bad at all.” |
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| the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way, as in to wage war and peace or On his fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold. |
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