Rhetorical Appeals & Devices

A comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”

• Simile

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Analogy

A comparison of two unlike things without using “like” or “as”

• Juxtaposition

• Ethos

• Metaphor

• Simile

Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts

• Hyperbole

• Juxtaposition

• Synecdoche

• Personification

an over exaggeration

• Anaphora

• Personification

• Juxtaposition

• Hyperbole

giving human-like qualities to an inanimate object/nonhuman or the representation of an abstract quality in human form

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Synecdoche

• Anaphora

a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa

• Polysyndeton

• Epistrophe

• Synecdoche

• Antithesis

the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

• Epistrophe

• Anaphora

• Polysyndeton

• Asyndeton

the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences

• Epistrophe

• Anaphora

• Polysyndeton

• Asyndeton

Deliberate use of many conjunctions (most typically "and")

• Rhetorical Question

• Polysyndeton

• Antithesis

• Irony

the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

• Rhetorical Question

• Antithesis

• Anaphora

• Euphemism