Rhetorical Devices

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Mood

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference

• Ethos

• Colloquialism

• Allusion

a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based

• Analogy

• Simile

• Metaphor

in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible

• Imagery

• Assonance

• Irony

a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation

• Understatement

• Rhetorical Question

• Colloquialism

the state of being strikingly different from something else, typically something in juxtaposition or close association

• Contrast

• Diction

• Onomatopoeia

the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing

• Ethos

• Logos

• Diction

an appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader.

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

an appeal to emotion and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response.

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

an appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason.

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos