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Retardation as a Rhetorical Figure of Speech

Lecture



Retardation (from Latin retardatio — delay, slowing) — a literary-artistic device: the delaying of the development of the action by including extra-plot elements in the text — lyrical digressions, various descriptions (landscape, interior, characterization).

Retardation as a Rhetorical Figure of Speech

See also

  • Artistic time
Figures of speech
Figures

Adynaton • Allusion • Amplification • Anadiplosis • Anacoluthon • Anaphora • Antithesis • Antitheton • Apocope • Apostrophe • Attraction • Asyndeton • Hyperbaton •Homeoteleuton • Gradation (Climax, Anticlimax) • Distinctio • Zeugma • Isocolon • Nominative of theme • Inversion • Correctio • Mesarchia •Polyptoton • Polysyndeton • Oxymoron • Parallelism • Paronomasia • Parcellation • Periphrasis • Pleonasm • Prolepsis • Retardation •Rhetorical question • Rhetorical exclamation • Rhetorical address • Symploce • Solecism • Tautology • Exact repetition • Aposiopesis • Chiasmus • Exergasia •Ellipsis • Emphasis • Epiphora
Tropes

Allegory • Antiphrasis • Asteism • Antonomasia • Hyperbole • Dysphemism • Irony • Pun • Catachresis • Litotes • Meiosis • Metaphor • Metonymy • Personification •Pathos • Periphrasis • Sarcasm • Synecdoche • Simile • Euphemism • Epithet

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2 The emergence and history of rhetoric
3. The rhetorical canon and its components. Stage I: the invention.
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Amplification as a Stylistic Figure
Anadiplosis as a Figure of Speech
Anacoluthon as a Figure of Speech
Anaphora and Epiphora as Figures of Speech
Antithesis (Contrast) as a Figure of Speech in Literature, the Media and Politics
Antitheton as a Figure of Speech
Апокопа
Apostrophe as a Figure of Speech
Attraction as a Figure of Speech
Asyndeton (Omission of Conjunctions) as a Figure of Speech
Hyperbaton as a Figure of Speech
Distinctio as a Figure of Speech
Zeugma as a Figure of Speech
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Retardation as a Rhetorical Figure of Speech
The Rhetorical Question (Erotema), the Rhetorical Exclamation and the Rhetorical Address as Rhetorical Figures
Symploce as a Rhetorical Figure of Speech
Solecism as a Rhetorical Figure of Speech
Tautology as a Rhetorical Figure of Speech
Mesarchia as a Rhetorical Figure of Speech
Polysyndeton (Multiplication of Conjunctions) as a Rhetorical Figure of Speech
Oxymoron as a Rhetorical Figure of Speech
Parallelism as a Rhetorical Figure of Speech
Parallelism in Folklore and Ancient Literature, and in European Literature
Paronomasia as a Rhetorical Figure of Speech
Parcelling (Syntactic Fragmentation) as a Rhetorical Figure of Speech
Periphrasis as a Rhetorical Figure of Speech
Pleonasm as a Rhetorical Figure of Speech
Prolepsis as a Rhetorical Figure of Speech
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