Unit 2: Rhetorical Devices

3. figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole.
6. attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea.
7. use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings.
9. sentence sentence used to command or enjoin
10. brief reference to a person, event, place or to a work of art.
14. repetition of words in reverse order
16. repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines.
17. sentence sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end.
18. sentence sentence that exhorts urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action.
19. omission of conjuctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words.
20. opposition, or contrast or ideas or words in a parallel construction.

1. repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in sequence.
2. paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another.
4. diction old fashioned or outdated choice of words.
5. placement if two items closely together to emphasize similarities or differences.
8. similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.
11. figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as.
12. question figure of speech in the form of a question posed for effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer.
13. inverted order of words in a sentence
15. sentence sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on.