Rhetorical Terms

Direct address to an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction

A comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory

a story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or for a political or historical situaton

When an idea or thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it

writing that using slang or informal language

Thoughts and feeling associated with a word

The word, phrase, or clause a pronoun renames or refers back to

A group of words that contains a subject and a verb

word, phrase, serene, or passage that have multiple or unclear meanings 

A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle