Congeries (con’-ger-eez): Piling up words of differing meaning but for a similar emotional effect [(akin to climax)].
Your proposal is unrealistic, dangerous, insulting, immoral, and muddled. In short, it’s ready for the shredder.
Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu). Bracketed text added by Gorgias.
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Alleotheta (al-le-o-the’-ta): Substitution of one case, gender, mood, number, tense, or person for another. Synonymous with enallage. [Some rhetoricians claim that alleotheta is a] general category that includes antiptosis [(a type of enallage in which one grammatical case is substituted for another)] and all forms of enallage [(the substitution of grammatically different but semantically equivalent constructions)].
Tomorrow you are leaving. Tomorrow, you are gone.
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Conduplicatio (con-du-pli-ca’-ti-o): The repetition of a word or words. A general term for repetition sometimes carrying the more specific meaning of repetition of words in adjacent phrases or clauses. Sometimes used to name either ploce or epizeuxis.
If one knows the truth, one does not have to like the truth. What’s the difference between liking the truth and knowing the truth? Maybe it’s the difference between freedom and necessity–to be sure one may love a lie (and lying too) & that’s the truth!
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Epiplexis (e-pi-plex’-is): Asking questions in order to chide, to express grief, or to inveigh. A kind of rhetorical question [–the speaker does not expect an answer].
Yes, it was an accident, but I was driving. I was behind the wheel. Why did we have to go to the store right then? An hour later & she’d still be alive. How am I going to live with this? Can I ever forgive myself? Can I ever forget? How do I turn off the regret and remorse and get on with my life?
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Epizeuxis (e-pi-zook’-sis): Repetition of words with no others between, for vehemence or emphasis.
Spend, spend, spend! Bills, bills, bills! We’re broke, but we had a lot of fun getting here! Let’s have a garage sale and buy some lotto tickets with the money we make!
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