AP Language Rhetorical Devices

Extravagant exaggeration

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Logos

• Pathos

The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables

• Ethos

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Apostrophe

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them

• Euphemism

• Ethos

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

A combination of contradictory or incongruous words

• Oxymoron

• Allusion

• Apostrophe

• Pathos

Contrasting concepts-float like a butterfly…

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Antithesis

Reference to something outside of a text

• Parallelism

• Allusion

• Reference

• Juxtaposition

An address to a person or parties-directly talking to

someone in a text

• Letter

• Alliteration

• Apostrophe

• Allusion

Similar words, phrases (group of words without a

subject/verb unit), clauses (subject/verb unit), sentence structures

with similar related meaning/importance

• Paradox

• Personification

• Balanced

• Parallelism

A picture drawn with words; words that make us see

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Logos

• Personification

Appeal to logic

• Logos

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Mythos