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Commoratio

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synonymianoun(rhetoric) The use of two or more synonyms together to amplify or explain a given subject or term. A kind of repetition that adds force.
merismusnoun(rhetoric) A metonymic term to describe a type of synecdoche in which two parts of a thing, perhaps contrasting or complementary parts, are made to stand for the whole.
comparisonnounThe act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.
metonymynoun(rhetoric) The use of a single characteristic or part of an object, concept or phenomenon to identify the entire object, concept, phenomenon or a related object.
syncrisisnoun(rhetoric) A figure of speech in which opposite things, people etc. are compared.
acolouthanoun(rhetoric) A fully reciprocal synonym.
dissimilenoun(archaic, rhetoric) Comparison or illustration by contraries.
oxymoronnoun(rhetoric) A figure of speech in which two words or phrases with opposing meanings are used together intentionally for effect.
polysyndetonnoun(rhetoric) The use of many conjunctions to achieve an overwhelming effect in a sentence.
synthetonnoun(rhetoric) A set phrase linking two or more non-synonymous words by conjunction.
parallelismnounThe state or condition of being parallel; agreement in direction, tendency, or character.
symposiacOf or pertaining to a symposium.
zeugmanoun(rhetoric) The act of using a word, particularly an adjective or verb, to apply to more than one noun when its sense is appropriate to only one.
anacolouthanoun(rhetoric) A non-reciprocal synonym; a word of meaning similar to a word but that cannot substitute for that word in all uses.
commatismnoun(obsolete) Conciseness in writing.
metaphornoun(uncountable, rhetoric) The use of a word, phrase, concept, or set of concepts to refer to something other than its literal meaning, invoking an implicit similarity between the thing described and what is denoted by the word, etc., that is used.
syllepsisnoun(rhetoric) A figure of speech in which one word simultaneously modifies two or more other words such that the modification must be understood differently with respect to each modified word; often causing humorous incongruity.
antistasisnoun(rhetoric) The repetition of a word in an opposing sense.
antimetabolenoun(rhetoric) The technique of repeating a phrase while reversing the order of certain elements or its grammatical structure, as a form of juxtaposition.
parabolenoun(rhetoric) Obsolete spelling of parable. [A short narrative illustrating a lesson (usually religious/moral) by comparison or analogy.]

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