Rhetorical Appeals and Literary Devices Review

How the text makes the reader feel (Ex. Peaceful, eerie, humorous, sad)

• description
• mood
• analysis
• tone

A group of lines in a poem that look like a paragraph

• speaker
• stanza
• rhythm
• onomatopoeia

Extreme exaggeration (Ex. My backpack weighs a ton.)

• hyperbole
• imagery
• simile
• personficiation

character or force who opposes the protagonist (villain)

• indirect characterization
• direct characterization
• antagonist
• protagonist

Author's attitude about their subject (Ex. Admiring, critical, nostalgic, sarcastic)

• text structure
• mood
• tone
• 3rd person point of view

Speaking of a nonhuman thing as if it has human feelings or actions (Ex. The wind moaned.)

• hyperbole
• idiom
• personification
• simile

Language that appeals to the five senses:

• Irony
• Imagery
• Setting
• Tone

Compares two things that have similar characteristics.

• anaphora

• analogy

• hyperbole

• alliteration

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a sentence or clause. Ex: "We came, we saw, we conquered."

• alliteration

• anaphora

• simile

• paraphrase

The repetition of the same sound within nearby words. Usually the repetition of consonants at the beginning of a word. Ex: Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

• parallelism

• alliteration

• simile

• epistrophe