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by notnaut 781 days ago
Epanalepsis?

Chiasmus?

Why are all rhetorical devices given such arcane names?

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> arcane names

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

Rhetoric was invented in Greece
I think they're just Greek because we got them from the Greeks.
Camorepticus?

Scremaèlitude?

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