Rhetorical Devices and Techniques

3. The way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences
5. The attitude a literary work takes towards its subject and theme. It reflects the narrator's
6. Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases
8. A brief story or tale told by a character in a piece of literature
10. Placing of two items side by side to create a certain effect
12. A reference to a historical or literary figure, event, or object
13. Sensory details in a work
14. Repetition of initial consonant sounds or any vowel sounds within a formal grouping
16. An overstatement characterized by exaggerated language
17. A logical approach where you progress from general ideas to specific conclusions

1. A statement that seems contradictory, but is actually true
2. The use of angry and insulting language in satirical writing
3. Verbal irony in which apparent praise is actually harshly critical
4. What is implied by a word. The emotional weight to a word
7. An opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other
9. Type of reasoning whereby information about a part of a class is applied to the class as a whole
11. Recurring syntax where parts of a sentence or several sentences are expressed alike
15. The order of terms in the first of parallel clauses is reversed in the second