Rhetoric

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7 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Rhetoric.

• Apostrophe (figure of speech) — A rhetorical turn in which a speaker breaks from the current audience to address an absent person, abstract idea or inanimate entity directly.
• Asyndeton — A rhetorical construction that deliberately omits conjunctions between coordinated words or clauses to alter rhythm, emphasis, or memorability.
• Hypotyposis — A rhetorical figure that renders a scene so vivid, animated and immediate that an audience seems to witness it.
• Hypsos — The Longinian rhetorical sublime: a heightening of discourse that transports an audience through grandeur, intensity, and a mixed response of awe, astonishment, attraction, and fear.
• Invective — Abusive or denunciatory language used rhetorically to blame, censure, discredit or wound a target.
• Metanoia (rhetoric) — A rhetorical self-correction that retracts or qualifies a just-made expression and replaces it with a stronger, weaker or more precise one.
• Simile — A marked explicit comparison that transfers a single salient attribute from a familiar vehicle to an unfamiliar topic while keeping the two distinct, enabling fast perceptual or affective uptake.