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Epanalepsis? Chiasmus? Why are all rhetorical devices given such arcane names?

• uoaei 2y ago
  Rhetoric was invented in Greece
• riskable 2y 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.
• InSteady 2y ago
  Camorepticus? Scremaèlitude? We're just making up words at this point, right?
• sn9 2y ago
  I think they're just Greek because we got them from the Greeks.