Rhetorical Appeals & Devices

Front

A comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”

Back

Simile

Front

A comparison of two unlike things without using “like” or “as”

Back

Metaphor

Front

Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts

Back

Juxtaposition

Front

an over exaggeration

Back

Hyperbole

Front

Giving human-like qualities to an inanimate object/nonhuman or the representation of an abstract quality in human form

Back

Personification

Front

a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa

Back

Synecdoche

Front

the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

Back

Anaphora

Front

The repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences.

Back

Epistrophe

Front

Deliberate use of many conjunctions (most typically "and")

Back

Polysyndeton

Front

The direct opposite, a sharp contrast

Back

Antithesis