The Elements of Eloquence
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Alliteration
Alliteration Mark Forsyth says alliteration makes things memorable, even if it’s nonsense, like, “A miss is as good as a...
Antithesis
Antithesis Juxtaposing contrasting ideas.1 Mark Forsyth says of it, “First you mention one thing: then you mention another,”2 and breaks...
Merism
Merism Can be confused for [[Antithesis]].1 It’s about naming a subject’s parts in contrasting phrases to represent the totality. It...
21.01 poetry and lyrics 🖋
21.01 Poetry and Lyrics 🖋 [[Rhyme schemes]] [[Rhythmic variation]] [[Ding-dong theory]] [[Poetic meter]] [[The effects of enjambment]] [[Figures of rhetoric]]...
Anadiplosis
Anadiplosis
It’s a type of repetition. From Greek “to double.”1
Anadiplosis Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster ↩
Epistrophe
Epistrophe Epistrophe is repetition at the end of a clause or even paragraph. Verse-chorus structures can be thought of as...
Epizeuxis
Epizeuxis Repeating the same word with the same sense.1 It can be used for emphasis or humor2 or even drudgery.3...
Hendiadys
Hendiadys An idea presented by two different words, links with and, like “nice and warm” instead of “nicely warm.” Modification...
Tricolon
Tricolon
Three parallel words or phrases. From Greek “three unit.”1
Definition and Examples of Tricolons in Rhetoric ↩
Polyptoton
Polyptoton This is the repeated use of one word as in different parts of speech or grammatical structures.1 It’s a...
Remix others' ideas
Remix others’ ideas Take a chord progression you love and write a new melody to it. In jazz, this is...
Synaesthesia
Synaesthesia One sense described in terms of another. There are some norms. Sight and sound are interchangeable.1 Touch can be...
Turn prose into verse
Turn prose into verse Shakespeare turned Thomas North’s prose into verse.1 Renaissance poet Ben Johnson wrote prose first, the converted...
Good sayings don't have to be revelatory
Good sayings don’t have to be revelatory Mark Forsyth says the only difference between a poet and anybody else is...