Rhetoric Vocab

logos

logic/reason

pathos

emotion

ethos

credibility

anadiplosis

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to Hate. Hate leads to suffering.

anaphora

No right, no wrong, no rules for me!

chiasmus

All for one and one for all.

diacope

Bond. James Bond.

double epithet

wisdom and knowledge

epistrophe

of the people, by the people, for the people

epizeuxis

Please, please, please

isocolon

Roses are red. Violets are blue.

metonymy

The White House is planning to talk to Buckingham Palace tonight. 

parallelism

What you see is what you get.

periodic sentence

Incapable of lifting the books with one hand, I had to make two trips to the library.

polyptoton

stranger in a strange land

preterition 

I’m just going to ignore the fact that she has straight As in all her classes.

prolepsis

Is it not working, the toaster?

rhetorical questions

Why is it always me?

synecdoche

all hands on deck

tricolon crescens

days, weeks, years