Rhetorical Devices: Term 2 Review

A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true.

• Paradox

• Oxymoron

• Tone

• Allusion

An author’s word choice

• Tone

• Diction

• Connotation

• Denotation

The dictionary definition of a word

• Denotation

• Connotation

• Diction

• Hyperbole

The feelings or emotions you get from a word. It’s implied meaning.

• Denotation

• Tone

• Connotation

• Understatement

A figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements Ex: Jumbo Shrimp

• Oxymoron

• Paradox

• Hyperbole

• Repetition

The attitude an author takes toward his or her topic in a piece of literature

• Tone

• Diction

• Denotation

• Allusion

the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction

• Repetition

• Diction

• Parallelism

• Allusion

An overstatement characterized by Exaggerated language

• Understatment

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

• Rhetorical Question

A way of speaking which minimizes the significance of something

• Hyperbole

• Diction

• Tone

• Understatement

indirect reference to a person, place, event, of literary work with which the author believes the reader will be familiar.

• Allusion

• Paradox

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole