Rhetorical Devices

ethos

ethos

appeal to speaker

pathos

appeal to audience

logos

appeal to logic

simile

comparison using like or as

metaphor

comparison

personification

appliance of human attibutes onto an object

allusion

reference to an outside source

juxtaposition

placing two contrasting idea or images next to eachother for dramatic effect

anaphora

repeating the same first word in successive words or phrases

epistrophe

repeating the same last word in successive words or phrases

euphemism

puting something that would normally be negative into a postive light

hyperbole

exageration used to emphasize a particular point

parallelism

constructing different parts of a complex sentence in the same grammatical structure

rhetorical question

hypothetical question that add evidence to the argument

understatement

using targeted phrasing to make serious issue sound less important than it is

amplification

repetition of important words or phrases while adding more details to it each time

paradox

contradicting ideas that might sound logical after further evidence

polysyndeton

including more conjuctions than needed

asyndeton

exclusion of necessary conjunctions between phrases