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RHETORICAL DEVICES
Madison Mertz, Jenardis Mountain, Seth
McLendon
CHIASMUS (KAɪˈÆZMƏS)
A chiasmus is a type of balance in which
the second part is balanced against the
first, but with the part reversed. This
means that basically you would just turn
the sentence around.
Pronounced: (kaɪˈæzməs)
CHIASMUSEXAMPLE 1
You forget what you
wanna remember and
remember what you wanna
forget
CHIASMUS EXAMPLE 2
“Do I love you because
you’re beautiful? Or are you
beautiful because I love
you?”
OXYMORON
A self-contradicory combination of
words or smaller verbal units
usually noun-noun, adjective-
adjective, adjective-noun, adverb-
adverb, adverb-verb
OXYMORON EXAMPLE
Alone together
Civil war
Clearly misunderstood
Crash landing
MORE EXAMPLES!!
Devout atheist
Impossible solution
Living dead
Seriously funny
Unbiased opinion
JANUS WORDS
Janus words are any word that can have contradictory
meanings. These words are similar to oxymoron
except oxymorons are two words that are self
contradictory but Janus words are one word with two
contradictory meanings
LITOTES
A form of understatement in
which a thing is affirmed by stating
the negative of its opposite
Pronounced: (laɪˈtoʊˌtiz)
LITOTES EXAMPLES
Ferris does not have what
we consider to be an
exemplary attendance
record
LITOTES EXAMPLES
You are not unwelcome
No ordinary city