Rhetorical Devices Examples

Which device is this “Man being born”

Allusion

Which device is this “power not only to preserve his property”

Cacophony

Which device is this “those of that society, there, and there only”

Andiplosis

Which device is this “those who are united into one body…”

Metonymy

Which device is this “(which is the power of making laws)

Parenthesis

Which device is this “And thus” (repeated at the beginning of a successive line)

Anaphora

Which device is this, repetition of no/nor

asyndeton

Which device is this “everyone is governed by his own passion and reason”

Juxtaposition

Which device is this “there can be no security to any man”

Hyperbole

Which device is this, ‘repetition of “will(s)” and “judgement”’ (repeated at the end of sentences/phrases)

epistrophe

Which device is this “made by covenant of every man with every man”

Allusion

Which device is this “I authorize and give up my right of governing myself, to this man or to this assembly of men, on this condition, and thou give up thy right to him, and authorize all his actions in a like manner”

Apostrophe

Which device is this “he is enabled to form the wills of them all, to peace at home and mutually aid against their enemies abroad” (said in 3rd paragraph but reversed)

Chiasmus

Which device is this “just and unjust”

anitithesis

Which device is this “man cannot govern self + groups can suppress individual wills = common wealth rule is in everyone’s best interest

syllogism (logos)