Rhetorical Devices

anaphora

Repetition of a word or phrase in the beginning of a sentence or paragraph.

Allusion

A reference to a person, place, event, or literature outside the text.

Antithesis

contrasting two opposite idea to make a greater statement.

Anecdote

a short story. it could be a personal story or story in general about another person who has experience.

Hyperbole/Overstatement

A deliberate exaggeration or over statement.

loaded language

using heavily connoted (Connotation-a word that brings feelings) words and phrases .

Rhetorical Question

A question asked to make a point rather than to get an answer.

Figurative Language

Metaphors, similes, and personification.

Understatement

The presentation of something as being smaller, worse or less than it actually is.

Parallelism

the use of successive verbal constructions in a text that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc.

Repetition

A word or phrase that is repeated.

Asyndeton

Listing things WITHOUT the use of conjunctions.

Polysyndeton

repetion of conjunctions in close succession.

Pronoun

A pronoun represents a particular person, a place, a thing, an animal, or group. It takes the place of a noun ( I, you,he, she, it, they, we).