Rhetorical Devices

Repetition - Repetition is a literary device in which a word or phrase is repeated twice or more.

Parallel Structure - The repetition of the same grammatical structures within a sentence.

Diction- The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.

Syntax - The way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences

Imagery - Sensory details in a work; the use of figurative language to evoke a feeling, call to mind an idea, or describe an object. Imagery involves any or all of the five senses

Alliteration - The repetition of initial consonant sounds or any vowel sounds within a formal grouping, such as a poetic line or stanza, or nearby in prose

Juxtaposition: the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effects.

Allusions - A figure of speech that makes a brief, even casual reference to a historical or literary figure, event, or object to create a resonance in the reader or to apply a symbolic meaning to the character or object of which the allusion consists.

Metaphors - A figure of speech that implicitly compares two unrelated things, typically by stating that one thing is another

Comparisons - A consideration or estimate of the similarities or dissimilarities between two things or people

Personifications - Treating an abstraction or nonhuman object as if it were a person by giving it human qualities.

Rhetorical Question- A question asked to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.

Hyperbole - Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

Anecdotes - A short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.

Analogies - A comparison between two things, typically for explanation or clarification.

Oxymoron - A figure of speech that combines two contradictory elements, as in "jumbo shrimp" or "deafening silence."

Counterargument - An argument or set of reasons put forward to oppose an idea or theory developed in another argument.

Paradox: A statement or situation that may be true but seems impossible or difficult to understand because it contains two opposite facts or characteristics

Extended metaphor - When a metaphor goes on for multiple sentences, multiple paragraphs, or even for the duration of the book, poem, or other work

Anaphora - the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.