Accumulatio
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'''Accumulatio''' is a [[figure of speech]], in which the points made previously are presented again in a compact, forceful manner. It often employs the use of [[Climax (figure of speech)|climax]] in the summation of a speech.
The word is from the Latin, and means "to amass."
==Examples==
*"Your organization, your vigilance, your devotion to duty, your zeal for the cause must be raised to the highest intensity." [[Winston Churchill]], ''Speech'', 14 July 1941. (This sentence comes after a lengthy passage in which Churchill warns the public that their courage and effort are still needed to defeat the enemy).
*"He is the betrayer of his own self-respect, and the waylayer of the self-respect of others; covetous, intemperate, irascible, arrogant; disloyal to his parents, ungrateful to his friends, troublesome to his kin; insulting to his betters, disdainful of his equals and mates, cruel to his inferiors; in short, he is intolerable to everyone." (''Suae pudicitiae proditor est, insidiator alienae; cupidus intemperans, petulans superbus; impius in parentes, ingratus in amicos, infestus cognatis; in superiores contumax, in aequos et pares fastidiosus, in inferiores crudelis; denique in omnes intolerabilis.'') Attributed to [[Cicero]], ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', IV.52
==See also==
*[[Climax (figure of speech)|Climax]]
*[[Figure of speech]]
[[Category:Rhetorical techniques]]
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