Rhetorical Terms Examples

A poem or picture that can be seen or interpreted to have a hidden meaning

• Allegory

• Pun

• Symbol

• Syllogism

Locavores are people who only eat locally produced food, this leads to a healthier diet but also a declines in other countries supply and demand.

• Symbolism

• Simile

• Cause and Effect

• Pun

A figure of speech that is an intentional exaggeration for emphasis or comic effect

• hyperbole

• repetition

• allegory

• symbolism

• Synechdoche

• Similie

• Syllogism

• Understatement

What type of Rhetorical term does this picture represent?

• Ironic commentary

• Hyperbole

• exaggeration

• Juxtaposition

• Cause and Effect

• Pun

• Synecdoche

• Symbolism

War had its casualties but people managed to improve the living conditions after war. What is this an example of?

• understatement

• simile

• metaphor

• repetition

First the air is blue and then it is bluer and then green and then black, I am blacking out and yes my mask is powerful.

• Hyperbole

• Polysyndeton

• Synechdoche

• Asyndeton

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

• Ironic Commentary

• Synecdoche

• Hyperbole

• Allegory

What rhetorical term is being used in this cartoon?

• Irony

• Pun

• Analogy

• Allusion