Examples of the most popular and useful rhetorical tools Alliteration Allusion Anadiplosis Analogy Anaphora Anesis Anticlimax Antimetabole Antithesis Aphorism Aposiopesis Apposition Assonance Asyndeton Catachresis Chiasmus Climax Conduplicato Diacope Distincto Ellipsis Enthymeme Enumerato Epanalepsis Epistrophe Epitheton Epizeuxis Ethos Euphemismos Evidence Exemplum (example) Expletive Hyperbole Hypophora Irony (Illusio) Litotes Logos Metaphor Onomatopoeia Oxymoron Parable Paradox Paralepsis Parallelism [...]
Research archive
Initial results of GPB-Vox research
March 3, 2012
GPB has been undertaking research with its Associate, the Vox Institute through 2011 and 2012. The research will be reviewed at a scientifc conference, and published in mid-late 2012 in a scientific journal. The research asked a key question in business development and more generally in spoken communications: Research Question: “Do we prefer to talk [...]
Paraprosdokians-A Rhetorical Tool
February 27, 2012
Rhetorical Tools: Paraprosdokians are a strange sort of tool; they fall into the category of ‘amusement’, and are defined as: “A figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. It [...]
Vocal Tongue twisters
August 20, 2011
Here we list some of the famous tongue-twisters to help you practice your pronunciation in English: Both bustled busily buttering buns Lots of hot coffee in a proper copper coffee pot Crispy crunchy crinkly crackling A dozen double adapters Red lorry, yellow lorry (repeat) Round and round the rugged rocks the ragged rascals ran their rural [...]
Word Contractions
December 19, 2010
We like to collect new English words. Here is our collection so far: Here is a list of new words (neologisms) that we have collected since late 2010. See if you can find a correlation between the types of words created and the state of the world’s economies. We think we can. Mercozy (Angela Merkel [...]
