Rhetorical Strategies

A rhetorical device which employs a balanced pair of opposites.

A question to which the writer expects no direct verbal response, usually because it is asked to make a point rather than to elicit information

A rhetorical device in which a single word refers to or describes two different words in the sentence, with two different resulting meanings.

A rhetorical device containing a succession of three coordinate items.

A rhetorical device in which a word or phrase is repeated at the beginnings of successive phrases or sentences.

A rhetorical device in which expected conjunctions are omitted

A rhetorical device in which a word or words are repeated at the end of successive phrases or sentences.

A rhetorical device in which an idea is repeated in two words, or phrases, that are nearly synonymous.

A rhetorical device that contains a repetition in the structure AB//AB, where the order of the elements in the first expression is maintained in the second expression.

A rhetorical device in which there are more conjunctions than is normal.