Rhetorical Devices AP Language

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

deliberately de-emphasizing something in order to downplay its importance

• litote

• hyperbole

• personification

• epistrophe

Lincoln's "of the people, by the people, for the people"

• epistrophe

• chiasmus

• anadiplosis

• asyndeton

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

The mountains look on Marathon - And Marathon looks on the sea

• Anadiplosis

• epistrophe

• antithesis

• polysyndeton

a verb for two nouns

• antimetabole

• chiasmus

• zeugma

• metonymy 

credibility

• ethos

• logos

• pathos