rhetorical devices 2

metabasis

used to sum up a body of work that has come before so as to allow movement to a new point

parenthesis

used to insert an aside or additional information into the main flow of your writing

apostrophe

when the writer breaks out of the flow of writing to directly address a person or personified object

enumeratio

refers to the act of supplying a list of details about something

antanagoge

way of ordering points to downplay negative points so that the reader feels less strongly about them

epithet

stylistic device involving attaching a descriptive adjective to a noun to bring a scene to life or to evoke a particular idea or emotion

asyndenton

leaving out of conjunctions between items in a list or between clauses

polysyndenton

putting of a conjunction between every item in a list or between multiple clauses

zeugma

device in which unexpected items in a sentence are linked by a shared word

synecdoche

figure of speech in which the writer refers to part of something to represent the whole

metonymy

figure of speech in which the writer referred to something closely related to the actual object

hyperbaton

device in which you arrange the words in your sentence in an unexpected order

aporia

device a writer will use to express doubt about an idea

anaphora

device in which the writer repeats a word or phrase at the beginning of multiple clauses or sentences

epistrophe

device in which the same word or phrase is repeated at the end of multiple clauses or sentences

symploce

device in which the same word phrase is repeated at the beginning and end of multiple clauses or sentences

amplification

writers repeating something they’ve just said, while adding more detail and information to the original description

personification

the act of giving human attributes to something that is non-human

parataxis

involves listing a series of clauses with no conjunctions