Advanced English 2- Rhetoric Devices

Simile

Comparing two terms using “like” or “as”

Metaphor

Comparing two terms with out using “like” or “as”

Onomatopoeia

Written representation of sounds

Alliteration

Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of adjacent words

Assonance

Repeated internal vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants

Hyperbole

Extreme exaggeration

Synecdoche

a part represents the whole

Oxymoron

Word or phrase that contain opposites

Paradox

Phrase or concept that seems to contradict itself

Allusion

Reference to something well known by a wide audience

Symbolism

Object or image that represents an idea

Personification

Human like features to an object

Repitition

Repeating one word/phrase for impact

Rhetorical Question

A question or statement that leads to an implied answer

Isocolon

similarity of structure and length in a pair or series of related words, phrases, clauses

Juxtaposition

Place of two unlike things side by side to bring in different and show contrast

Anaphora

Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a clause

Asyndeton

deliberate deletion of conjunctions between a series or related clauses

Polysyndeton

deliberate use of many conjunctions

Litotes

Deliberate use of understatement, stated in the negative

Antithesis

The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure

Chiasmus

reversal of grammatical structures in successive clauses

Ellipsis

Deliberate omission of a word or of words which are readily implied by the context

Metonymy

substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant

Anadiplosis

Beginning clause with words that the last clauses ended with

Anthimeria

the substitution of one part of speech for another

Epistrophe

repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses

Parallelism

similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses

Anastrophe

inversion of the natural or usual word order (Yoda speak)

Epanalepsis

repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause

Antimetabole

repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order

Polyptoton

repetition of words derived from the same root