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nuclearnice1 | 1 year ago

polyptoton?

discuss

order

notnaut|1 year ago

Epanalepsis?

Chiasmus?

Why are all rhetorical devices given such arcane names?

riskable|1 year ago

> arcane names

That's why they're magic! If people used these words every day they'd end up starting fires or summoning demons.

uoaei|1 year ago

Rhetoric was invented in Greece

sn9|1 year ago

I think they're just Greek because we got them from the Greeks.

InSteady|1 year ago

Camorepticus?

Scremaèlitude?

We're just making up words at this point, right?