Rhetorical analysis with A

Amplification

The act of repeating a word or expression while adding more detail to emphasize its importance.

Analogy

A comparison between two things that are alike in several respects, used to explain or clarify an unfamiliar idea.

Anaphora

The repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases or sentences.

Antimetabole

Reversing the order of repeated words or phrases to intensify the final formulation or show contrast.

Antiphrasis

One word irony established by context.

Antithesis

A rhetorical device that establishes a clear contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together.

Aphorism

A short, often witty statement of a principle or truth about life.

Apophasis

A rhetorical device that emphasizes something by seeming to pass over, ignore, or deny it.

Aporia

Expressing doubt about an idea or conclusion, suggesting alternatives without commitment.

Aposiopesis

Stopping abruptly and leaving a statement unfinished.

Apostrophe

A rhetorical device that addresses directly a person or personified thing, often to display intense emotion.

Appositive

A noun or noun substitute placed next to another noun to describe or define it.

Assonance

The repetition of similar vowel sounds in successive or proximate words.

Asyndeton

The omission of conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses to give an effect of multiplicity.