Rhetorical Devices in Speech

a short personal story used to connect with the audience and add evidence

or credibility

• anecdote

• allegory

• alliteration

• allusion

a story, picture, or other work that uses symbolic figures, objects or actions to

convey truth. The purpose is to explain an idea or principle

• anecdote

• allegory

• alliteration

• allusion

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words

close by to one another

• anecdote

• allegory

• alliteration

• allusion

when an author refers to something from history, culture, or literature, and it

is up to the reader to pick up on that reference and understand it

• anecdote

• allegory

• alliteration

• allusion

a comparison between two things

• analogy

• anaphora

• antithesis

• connotation

a type of repetition in which the same words are repeated at the beginning

of sentences or clauses

• analogy

• anaphora

• antithesis

• connotation

a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by

putting opposite words close together, such as “hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all

sins”

• analogy

• anaphora

• antithesis

• connotation

the ideas or feelings that a certain word creates; the feelings associated

with a word

• analogy

• anaphora

• antithesis

• connotation

questions that are not expected to have an answer; are usually asked to make the reader or listener think about something

• Rhetorical Question

• Parallelism

• Connotation

• Analogy

when a sentence is written with similar grammatical constructions

• Rhetorical Question

• Parallelism

• Connotation

• Analogy