Milton's Favourite Poetic Devices

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Rhetorical use of similar-sounding words for effect
Agnomination
Repeating last word of clause at beginning of next clause
Anadiplosis
Reversing or inverting word order as rhetorical device
Anastrophe
Turning of opponent’s own argument against them
Antistrophon
Addressing of a personified thing rhetorically
Apostrophe
Expression characterised by conciseness and elegance
Atticism
Contrast by parallelism in reverse order
Chiasmus
Rhetorical expression of uncertainty of which of two options to adopt
Diaporesis
Rhetorical device of condemning through faint praise
Diasyrm
Intentional ambiguousness
Dilogy
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Plain interpretation of a thing
Ecphrasis
Persuasion through stylized but severe criticism of opponent
Epiplexis
Rhetorical questioning
Erostesis
Much talk with little to say; redundancy; pleonasm
Macrology
Repetition of a word or phrase
Palillogy
The device of giving emphasis by professing to say little or nothing of a subject
Paralipsis
Partial admission of opponent’s argument to strengthen one’s final argument
Paromologia
Rhetorical device of repeating conjunctions for emphasis
Polysyndeton
Description of a thing by its qualities rather than its proper name
Pronomination
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