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GLOSSARIES OF RHETORIC
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COMMUNICATION
IS THE FOUNDATION OF LIFE
ADIANOETA - an expression that carries both an obvious meaning and a second, subtler meaning.
ADAGE - expresses a well-known and simple truth in just a few words.
BRACHYLOGIA - concision of speech or writing; also any condensed form of expression. For example, when Antony in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra tells a messenger ‘Grates me: the sum’, meaning ‘This is annoying me; get to the point of what you have to say’. The term is most often applied to expressions involving the omission of conjunctions, as in the figure known as asyndeton.
COLLOQUY - a high-level serious discussion
DIFFUSE - being at once verbose and ill-organized
DYSPHEMISM - expressions in which neutral or mild language is shunned in favor of more harsh verbiage. Opposite of "euphemism"; cacophemism.
ENCOMIUM - a formal expression of high praise
EPANALEPSIS - a figure of speech in which the same word, phrase, or clause is repeated after intervening words.
EPEXEGESIS - when one interprets what one has just said, often signaled by "that is to say...."
EXPATIATE - to speak or write at length (used with on or upon)
FIS PHENOMENON - the phenomenon where children reject well-meaning adult attempts to mispronounce a word in the same way as a child. Child: "Fis." / Adult: "Yes, it's a 'fis'." / Child: "No, 'fis'!" / Adult: "Oh, a fish." / Child: "Yes, a fis."
GARRULOUS - pointlessly or annoyingly talkative
HOLOGRAOH - document written wholly in the handwriting of the person whose signature it bears.
HOLOPHRASE - single word expressing sentence or phrase
HYPOPHORA - when the writer asks a question and then answers the question asked.
IDIOM - an expression that means something different from the literal meaning of the words.
INEFFABLE - to great to be expressed in words
LACONIC - expressing enough detail but with few words
LALOCHEZIA - emotional relief gained from using profane language.
LINGUA FRANCA - any language that is widely used as a means of communication among speakers of other languages.
LINGUIST - person who is skilled in several languages; polyglot.
LITOTES - a fun form of understatement, in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in "He's not without charm."
LOCUTION - manner of speech or phrase
LOQUACIOUS - full of excessive talk
MACROLOGY - long and tedious talk lacking in substance; superfluity of words.
MAXIM - a brief statement that contains a little piece of wisdom or a general rule of behavior.
METALLAGE - a word or phrase treated as an object within another expression. "A lady's 'verily' is as potent as a lord's." -- William Shakespeare.
MIND-POP - a word, phrase, image or sound that comes to mind suddenly and involuntarily and usually related to a recent experience.
MACROLOGY - long and tedious talk lacking in substance; superfluity of words.
MAXIM - a brief statement that contains a little piece of wisdom or a general rule of behavior.
METALLAGE - a word or phrase treated as an object within another expression. "A lady's 'verily' is as potent as a lord's." -- William Shakespeare.
PALAVER - long parley usually between persons of different cultures or levels of sophistication
PANCHRESTON - a broad thesis that claims to cover the entire subject but usually ends up as a gross oversimplification.
PANGRAM - a short sentence or expression containing all 26 letters of the English alphabet.
PAUCILOQUENT - use as few words as possible
POLEMIC - a strong attack or argument against a controversial subject.
PORTMANTEA - combines two or more words to form a new word that expresses a single idea.
PLATITUDE - repeats obvious, simple, and easily understood statements that have little meaning or emotional weight.
POLYGLOT - a person who speaks, writes, or reads a number of languages.
PROLIX - marked by or using an excess of words; verbose, long-winded, using too many words.
PUN - a joke based on the play on homophones (words with the same pronunciation but different meanings). It can also play with words that sound similar, but not exactly the same. The humor comes from the confusion of the two meanings.
RETICENT - inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech
SEMANTEME - word expressing an idea, such as a noun
SESQUIPEDALIAN - someone given to using long words
SOLILOQUY - the act of talking to oneself
SUBREPTION - phrasing words in such a way as to misrepresent by concealing facts.
SUCCINCT - communicating expressions of ideas or facts clearly and concisely.
TACHYGRAPHY - shorthand; shortened cursive writing
TACITURN - temperamentally disinclined to talk
TRUISM - a bland statement. It may sound wise or meaningful on the surface, but that’s very obvious and doesn’t add any new ideas or information.
TUMESCENT - pompous or pretentious language. From Latin present participle of ‘tumescere’ meaning “to swell up.”
VERBOSE - containing more words than necessary
