Rhetorical Devices & Strategies

repetition of a word or phrase to begin successive clauses

• anaphora
• logos
• personification
• irony

repetition of initial consonant sounds

• alliteration
• anaphora
• understatement
• logos

word choice

• diction
• credibility
• antithesis
• inclusive

the presentation of something as being smaller or less important than it actually is.

• understatement
• rhetoric
• anecdote
• antithesis

the art of using language effectively and persuasively

• rhetoric
• hyperbole
• jargon
• anecdote

Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts

• juxtaposition
• alliteration
• ethos
• diction

exaggeration

• hyperbole
• antithesis
• anaphora
• syntax

sentence structure; the order of words in a sentence

• syntax
• anecdote
• inclusive
• personification

the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman

• personification
• analogy
• pathos
• juxtaposition

containing all; not keeping any out

• inclusive
• ethos
• alliteration
• analogy