Rhetorical Devices (Vocabulary)

_________ is

a statement in support of a particular truth, fact, or claim.

A kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics. 

• Personification

• Simile

• Parallelism

• Irony

_____is a deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration used for either serious or comic effect.

A comparison between two things intended to show how they are alike.

• Simle

• Analogy

• Assonance

• Imagery

______is the use of words to convey a meaning that is opposite of its literal meaning.

A form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into a single unusual expression.

• Imagery

• Irony

• Oxymoron

• Jargon

____is the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group.

Facts, revealed by the author or speaker, that support the tone or purpose of a text.

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Anecdote

• Details

A question asked solely to produce an effect or to make an assertion and not to elicit a reply. 

____is a statement containing contradictory elements that may appear illogical, impossible, or absurd but which actually have a coherent meaning that reveals a hidden truth.