Rhetorical Devices

language that appeals to your senses...

• allusion

• parallelism

• imagery

• personification

repetition of consonant sounds.

• onomatapoeia

• alliteration

• allusion

• concrete

giving human qualities to an inanimate object...

• parallelism

• concrete

• audience contact

• personification

combining differing ideas in the same sentence; also opposites...

• personification

• contrast

• onomatopoeia

• climax ordering

restating words and phrases for emphasis...

• climax ordering

• alliteration

• parallelism

• repetition

language that includes your listeners and conveys your respect to them...

• audience contact

• climax ordering

• parallelism

• concrete

using elements in sentences that are grammatically similar or identical in structure, sound, meaning, or meter...

• climax ordering

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• parallelism

presenting specific details in order of increasing importance...

• contrast

• climax ordering

• parallelism

• onomatopoeia

a figure of speech that makes a reference to a place, person, or event...

• alliteration

• personification

• allusion

• audience contact

use of words that sound like the thing they stand for...

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• allusion