rhetoric+supplement

Rhetoric Supplement **Analogy** compares two things, which are alike in several respects, for the purpose of explaining or clarifying some unfamiliar or difficult idea or object by showing how the idea or object is similar to some familiar one. **Distinctio** is an explicit reference to a particular meaning or to the various meanings of a word, in order to remove or prevent ambiguity. **Hyperbaton** includes several rhetorical devices involving departure from normal word order. **Procatalepsis**, by anticipating an objection and answering it, permits an argument to continue moving forward while taking into account points or reasons opposing either the train of thought or its final conclusions. **Antithesis** establishes a clear, contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing them, often in parallel structure. **Simile** is a comparison between two different things that resemble each other in at least one way. **Scesis Onomaton** emphasizes an idea by expressing it in a string of generally synonymous phrases or statements. **Zeugma** includes several similar rhetorical devices, all involving a grammatically correct linkage (or yoking together) of two or more parts of speech by another part of speech. **Rhetorical question** (erotesis) differs from hypophora in that it is not answered by the writer, because its answer is obvious or obviously desired, and usually just a yes or no. **Symploce**: combining anaphora and epistrophe, so that one word r phrase is repeated at the beginning and another word or phrase is repeated at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences.