Metonymy (me-ton’-y-my): Reference to something or someone by naming one of its attributes. [This may include effects or any of the four Aristotelian causes {efficient/maker/inventor, material, formal/shape, final/purpose}.]
Hey Big Tooth, give me five! Long time no see! Are you still a shrink?
Definition courtesy of “Sliva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu). Bracketed text added by Gorgias.
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Epimone (e-pi’-mo-nee): Persistent repetition of the same plea in much the same words.
The PAC wants to go over Lemming Cliff!
We need your help! The PAC is depending on you! Come to the meeting! Show up! Be there! Tonight!
Be a good little rodent and follow the PAC over Lemming Cliff!
Do it for the PAC!
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Anesis (an’-e-sis): Adding a concluding sentence that diminishes the effect of what has been said previously. The opposite of epitasis.
My little doggy is cute, affectionate, and obedient. That said, he smells like a polluted mud flat at low tide on a hot afternoon.
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Paraprosdokian: a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase [or series = anticlimax] is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe the first part. . . . For this reason, it is extremely popular among comedians and satirists. An especially clever paraprosdokian not only changes the meaning of an early phrase, but also plays on the double meaning of a particular word.(1)
It’s the hairdo, not the hare, that wins the race!
1. “Paraprosdokian.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 4 Jan 2008, 03:30 UTC. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 9 Jan 2008 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraprosdokian>.
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