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| Rhetorical question (retorisk spørgsmål) |
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A question asked without expecting an answer but for the sake of emphasis or effect:
"How much longer must our people endure this injustice?
How many times do I have to tell you to stop walking into the house with mud on your shoes?" |
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An assertion seemingly opposed to common sense, but that may yet have some truth in it:
"What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young" |
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| 'Simile (simile eller sammenligning) |
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An explicit comparison between two things using 'like' or 'as':
"I wandered lonely as a cloud"
"My love is like a red, red rose" |
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Apparent paradox achieved by the juxtaposition of words which seem to contradict one another:
a deafening silence, a mournful optimist |
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| Personifi'cation (personifikation) |
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Attribution of personality to an impersonal thing:
"England expects every man to do his duty" |
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| Hy'perbole (hyperbol eller overdrivelse) |
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Exaggeration for emphasis or for rhetorical effect:
I could sleep for a year; this book weighs a ton |
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Expression of something which is contrary to the intended meaning; the words say one thing but mean another:
"Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man." |
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Implied comparison achieved through a figurative use of words; the word is used not in its literal sense, but in one analogous to it:
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent" |
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| Parallel structures (parallelle strukturer) |
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| Often three aspects, examples etc |
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Opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction:
"Brutus: Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more" |
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| 'Assonance (assonans eller halvrim) |
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Repetition of the same sound in words close to each other:
"Thy kingdom come, thy will be done" |
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| An'tistrophe (antistrofe) |
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Repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses:
"In 1931, ten years ago, Japan invaded Manchukuo -- without warning. In 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia -- without warning. In 1938, Hitler occupied Austria -- without warning. In 1939, Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia -- without warning. Later in 1939, Hitler invaded Poland -- without warning. And now Japan has attacked Malaya and Thailand -- and the United States --without warning" |
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| Repe'tition (repetition eller gentagelse) |
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| Repetition of words for emphasis |
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| Substitution of an agreeable or at least non-offensive expression for one whose plainer meaning might be harsh or unpleasant: People who have died are referred to as having passed away or passed or departed. Deceased is a euphemism for "dead" |
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The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines:
"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender" |
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| 'Litotes (litote eller underdrivelse) |
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Understatement, for intensification, by denying the contrary of the thing being affirmed:
"One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day" |
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| Alliteration (alliteration) |
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repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence:
"Let us go forth to lead the land we love" |
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