Rhetoric Device List 2 Review

This device reveals a truth that at first seems contradictory, such as "I am strongest when I am weakest."

The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive sentences or clauses.

A literary device that implies comparison or contrast. Two entities are side by side to create a dramatic or ironic contrast.

"Youth is wasted on the young" is an example of...

The emotions intended to be felt by the reader of a literary work. Typically established through setting.

The repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences.

Recurrent syntactic similarity. In this structural arrangement, several parts of a sentence or several sentences are developed and phrased similarly to show that the ideas are equal in importance.

The repetition of conjunctions (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) in close succession to connect different items in a sentence.

When two things are reversed in position; reversal of the natural order of words.

A device in which the last word or phrase of one sentence, clause, or line is repeated at the beginning of the next.