Literary & Rhetorical Devices

Literary Devices

• allegory -alliteration

• allusion -analogy

• colloquialism -euphemism

• flashback -foreshadowing

• hyperbole -imagery

• irony -juxtaposition

• metaphor -simile

• mood -oxymoron

• paradox -tone

• symbolism -satire

• repetition -personification

Rhetorical Devices

• anecdote -irony

• analogy -oxymoron

• tone -logos

• mood -pathos

• allusion -ethos

• juxtaposition -satire

• euphemism -parallelism

• paradox -narration

• motif -allegory

• rhetorical questions

Literary vs. Rhetorical Devices

Literary devices are used to enrich a narrative, whereas rhetorical devices are more focused on persuasion and emotional appeal.

Parallelism

when the arrangement of parts of a sentence is similarly phrased or constructed