Rhetorical Devices - Writing

What is a fact or piece of data obtained from numerical information?

A direct comparison of something to something else

• simile

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• personification

What is a sentence which ends with an exclamation mark?

Repetition of the same word/phrase at the start of sentences/clauses:

• epistrophe

• asyndeton

• anaphora

• synechdoche

A set or succession of three similar things:

• triplet

• tripulet

• triplette

• tripulete

A sentence that give a command:

What is it called when two contradictory terms appear in conjunction?

Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly?

• I am alone; empty.

• I am alone. I am; empty.

• I am alone; I am empty.

• I am alone; and I am empty

A group of words and phrases associated with a particular theme:

Repeating words or phrases for specific effect: