Rhetorical Devices/Figurative Language

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Rhetoric

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The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially using figures of speech and other compositional techniques.

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Rhetorical contrast

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Contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences.

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Asyndeton

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Omission of the conjunctions that normally join coordinate words or clauses.

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Chiasmus

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A rhetorical device in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form.

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Irony

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The use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning.

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Metonymy

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A figure of speech involving the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant.

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Rhetorical Question

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A statement made in the form of a question with no expectation of an answer.

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Synecdoche

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

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Zeugma

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A figure of speech where a word applies to two others in different senses or to two others of which it semantically suits only one.

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Alliteration

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The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables.