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rhetoric Rhetoric is the art of persuasion. It is one of the three ancient arts of discourse ( trivium) along with grammar and logic/ dialectic. As an academic discipline within the humanities, rhetoric aims to study the techniques that speakers or w ...
, parechesis () is the repetition of the same sound in several words in close succession. An example of a parechesis is: "He persuades the Pithian ()." Hermogenes of Tarsus discusses parechesis in his work ''On the invention of arguments'' (Περὶ εὑρέσεως).
Alliteration Alliteration is the repetition of syllable-initial consonant sounds between nearby words, or of syllable-initial vowels if the syllables in question do not start with a consonant. It is often used as a literary device. A common example is " Pe ...
(initial rhyme) is a special case of parechesis. It is related to paronomasia.Bullinger, E. W. ''Figures of Speech Used in the Bible'' 1970 "In these cases, where the Paronomasia is in the Hebrew thought, it is called Parechesis so far as the Greek is concerned. And it is only when we go to the Hebrew thought that we can hear the Hebrew words sounding beside the Greek words."


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