Rhetorical Devices

1. a writer's or speaker's choice of words
5. a person, place, or object that has a concrete meaning in itself and also stands for something beyond itself
6. repetition of the initial consonant sounds beginning several words in sequence
9. appeals to emotion
10. brief statement, usually one sentence long that expresses a general principle or truth about life grammatical figure by which the order of words in one of two of parallel clauses is inverted in the other
12. refers to repetition in grammatical structure
13. substitution of an agreeable or at least non-offensive expression for one whose plainer meaning might be harsh or unpleasant
15. question that does not expect an answer
16. repeating words or phrase for emphasis
18. giving something that is not human, human-like characteristics
20. correspondence of end sounds of words
22. repetition of a word or group of words in successive clauses
23. like a simile, compares two different things by identifying points of similarity
25. repetition of the same vowel sounds in words close to each other

2. repetition of two or more consonants within words in a sequence
3. comparing two things by saying they are the same
4. sound words
6. an indirect reference to a mythological, historical or literary person, place, thing or event with which the reader is assumed to be familiar
7. brief story that focuses on a single episode or event in a person's life and that is used to illustrate a particular point
8. comparing two things using like or as
11. the understood meaning
14. exaggeration for emphasis or for rhetorical effect
17. evidence and credibility
19. the emotional response evoked by a word
21. words in a sentence or phrase that seem to contradict one another
24. appeals to logic