Synonymia

Template:Short description In rhetoric, synonymia (Greek: syn, "alike" + onoma, "name") is the use of several synonyms together to amplify or explain a given subject or term. It is a kind of repetition that adds emotional force or intellectual clarity. Synonymia often occurs in parallel fashion.<ref>George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie. 1589. Kent State University Press, 1988.</ref><ref>Henry Peacham, The Garden of Eloquence. 1593.</ref>

Example

• The tribune Marullus taunts the Roman populace in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar for their fickleness, calling the people several different pejorative names: "You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!"

See also

• Figure of speech
• Trope (linguistics)

References

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