Rhetorical Terms

The grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences or paragraphs to give structural similarity

• parallelism

• tautology

• repetition

• metonymy

a. Appeal to logic (statistics, facts, and reasons)

• ethos

• pathos

• diction

• logos

To list; determine the number of

• zeugma

• enumeration

• tricolon

• objectivity

An elaborate metaphor sustained over a number of lines or paragraphs

• extended metaphor

• anecdote

• conceit

• eulogy

Informal language; conversational language

• litotes

• dialect

• diction

• colloquial

The author's main point or argument about a topic

• declarative sentence

• understatement

• claim

• Counterclaim

An oration in honor of a deceased person

• exhortation

• anecdote

• eulogy

• pathetic appeal

An individual instance taken to be representative of a general pattern

• dialect

• imperative

• aphorism

• exemplum

A figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means and thus creating emphasis

• polemic

• pathetic appeal

• objectivity

• understatement

A two-word paradox

• antithesis

• oxymoron

• aphorism

• chiasmus