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Address & Argument

Amplificatio

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Returning to the same point with more force each time — repeating, stacking, escalating until the idea fills the frame. Where a list adds instances, amplification adds size.

Cicero circling Catiline's treachery in wave after rising wave.

Don't confuse it with. Enumeratio lists; amplificatio inflates. Auxesis is its close kin, arranging terms in ascending force.

Drill its family — Address & Argument

In the Reader — 1 excerpt

honor to his village by throwing Amalinze the Cat. Amalinze was the great wrestler
— Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart · open the passage →

The rest of the family

Rhetorical Question Apostrophe Invocation Aphorism Enthymeme Correctio / Epanorthosis Parrhesia Metabasis Aporia Enargeia / Vivid Specificity