Rhetorical Devices Review

“A time to be born, a time to die

A time to plant, a time to reap

A time to kill, a time to heal

A time to laugh, a time to weep”

• anadiplosis

• epiphora

• antimetabole

• anaphora

“Dear future husband,

Here's a few things

You'll need to know if you wanna be

My one and only all my life…”

• chiasmus

• polysyndeton

• apostrophe

• litotes

“Laid back (With my mind on my money and my money on my mind).”

• understatement

• polysyndeton

• chiasmus

• litotes

“My waist bone's connected to my hip bone.

My hip bone's connected to my thigh bone.

My thigh bone's connected to my knee bone.

My knee bone's connected to my hardy-har-har-har…”

• rhetorical fragment

• anadiplosis

• chiasmus

• litotes

“My waist bone's connected to my hip bone.

My hip bone's connected to my thigh bone.

My thigh bone's connected to my knee bone.

My knee bone's connected to my hardy-har-har-har…”

• rhetorical question

• synecdoche

• epiphora

• litotes

“I win, thrive, soar, higher, higher, higher

More fire…

I came to win, to fight, to conquer, to thrive

I came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise

To fly

To fly…”

• asyndeton

• synecdoche

• metonymy

• litotes

“My lover she’s waiting for me just across the bar

My seat’s been taken by some sunglasses asking 'bout a scar…”

• zeugma

• rhetorical question

• metonymy

• anaphora

“I wish I found some better sounds no one's ever heard,

I wish I had a better voice that sang some better words,

I wish I found some chords in an order that is new,

I wish I didn't have to rhyme every time I sang”

• zeugma

• rhetorical question

• parallelism

• apostrophe

“True, that he’s no Prince Charming…”

• litotes

• rhetorical question

• epiphora

• synecdoche

“And I told you to be patient,

And I told you to be fine,

And I told you to be balanced,

And I told you to be kind,.”

• zeugma

• polysyndeton

• epiphora

• synecdoche