Rhetorical Terms and Appeals

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines.

The purposeful repetition of conjunctions in a sentence.

The purposeful omission of conjunctions in a sentence.

​Language that evokes any of the five senses.

A question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.

A figure of speech in which a thing or concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept.

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

A direct comparison that states on thing is another.

A comparison that states one thing is like another.

An extreme overstatement