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General Rhetorical Strategies
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As a general strategy of rhetoric, omission occurs on many levels of language. On a large scale, it is associated with the rhetorical exercise known as abbreviation. On a smaller scale, there are numerous rhetorical schemes (unusual arrangements of words or clauses) and rhetorical tropes (unusual uses of words) based on omission of one sort or another: Related Figures: Schemes Based on Omission
Related Figures: Tropes Based on Omission
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