Rhetorical Devices

• Pathos: conveying emotion, ex. a crisis
• Logos: Logical Arguments, Ex. Politician speeches
• Ethos: Credibility of author, Ex. Doctor advertising products
• Allusion: Figure of speech that references a person, place, or thing
• Anachronism: Something/someone that is not in its correct historical, or chronological time.
• Anadiplosis: repetition of last word of sentence and first one of the next
• Analogy: a explicit comparison between two things; mostly used to explain the 2 comparisons.
• Anthimeria: Use of a new word; changing noun to its verb tense
• Antonomasia: Defining words that replace the name of a persons name
• Aposiopesis: devise to create a breakoff in a sentence
• Aphorism: a observation that expresses a general truth or a moral principle
• Apostrophe: directly addressing an absent of imaginary person or a personified abstraction
• Epistrophe: Repetition of same words at the end of a sentence
• Euphemism: used to lessen the impact of something unpleasant
• Hyperbole: Exaggeration of something
• Imagery: Sensory details with 5 senses that allow reader to imagine the setting or action in text
• Irony: words the differ between what is said and what is meant
• Litotes: a form of understatement expressed by negating its contrary
• Metaphor: figure of speech that describes something or action in a way that its not literally true; comparison without like or as
• Metonymy: substitution of one name for another
• Oxymoron: combines contradicting words with opposing meanings
• Paradox: sentences that contradicts each other (Oxymoron but for sentences)
• Personification: gives human characteristics to inanimate objects
• Simile: comparison using like or as
• Symbolism: the idea the things represent a certain object
• Synecdoche: figure of speech where a part of something represents something whole
• Zeugma: term using one word to convey two other words, in two different ways
• Antithesis: parallel structure to highlight the contrast; opposition of an idea
• Understatement: Figure of speech when a speaker makes a situation seem less important or severe than what it is.
• Asyndeton: series of words or clauses that have no conjucations, only commas
• Polysyndeton: Series of words or clauses that have many conjunctions
• Antimetabole: the repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order; Fair is foul, Foul is fair
• Chiasmus: When the same words are used twice in succession, but the second time the words order is reversed. I love tim, time love me