Rhetorical Devices AP Lang

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

• metonymy
• alliteration
• polysyndeton
• asyndeton

Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!

• chiasmus
• asyndeton
• anaphora
• zeguma

Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more

• polysyndeton
• antithesis
• zeguma
• anadiplosis

Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils,/ Shrunk to this little measure?

• polysyndeton
• asyndeton
• antimetabole
• antithimeria

I died laughing

• hyperbole
• litote
• synecdoche
• periphrasis

a reference to an object or person by naming only a part of the object or person

• metonymy
• synecdoche
• hyperbole
• litote

The pen danced across the author's page

• epistrophe
• asyndeton
• metaphor
• personification

Art thou mad? Is not the truth the truth?

• allusion
• rhetorical question
• antithesis
• anthimeria

ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.

• antithesis
• Chiasmus
• zeguma
• parenthesis

spread the happy

• periphrasis
• parenthesis
• anthimeria
• asyndeton