Rhetorical Devices

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Allegory

narrative in which characters and their actions are symbolic or personifications of qualities

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Zeugma

linking of a subject with two or more verbs, or linking a verb with two or more subjects

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Allusion

a reference to a historical / literary / religious event

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Ambiguity

writing which can be interpreted in multiple ways and/or with different connotations

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Anadiplosis

repeating the last word in a clause in the beginning of the next one

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Analogy

a comparison

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Anaphora

parallel repetition in the beginning of two or more clauses

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Anastrophe

when normal syntax is violated for emphasis

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"Of pain you could wish only one thing

that it should stop

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Anecdote

a short story

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Antimetabole

repetition of words but reversed

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Antithesis

juxtaposition of contrasting terms in the same sentence

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Apostrophe

a speech said to a personified object or a person who is not present

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Apposition

two noun phrases referring to the same subject

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Asyndeton

sentence with no conjunctions to make it fast-paced

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Cliche

a commonplace or overused theme/plot/character/trope

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Colloquialism

informal but common words/phrases

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Connotation

a words emotion/feeling it invokes

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"unique"

special (+), peculiar (-), or different (neutral)

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Dialect

attempts to mimic speech via spelling and grammar

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Diction

word choice

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Epanalepsis

emphasis on a word which is the first and last in the clause/sentence

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