Rhetorical Devices Review

A writer's words are his paintbrush.

• metaphor

• simile

• rhetorical question

• sententia

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• rhetorical question

"Our words seem small beside the loss you have endured."

• oxymoron

• juxtaposition

• parallelism

• understatement

"passive aggressive," "same difference," "clearly confused," "alone together"

• oxymoron

• juxtaposition

• understatement

• euphemism

Repetition of a word or phrase at the end of a sentence, lines, or clauses (example: See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.)

• metaphor

• anaphora

• imagery

• epistrophe

As St. Paul admonished us, let us "not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."

(2 answers)

• juxtaposition

• allusion

• understatement

• personification

Using strongly contrasting words, images, or ideas

• antithesis

• juxtaposition

• restatement

• illusion

Repeating an idea using the same words

• epistrophe

• antithesis

• repetition

• parallelism

This appeal represents credibility or an ethical appeal, which involves persuasion by the character involved

• logos

• ethos

• pathos

Repeating grammatical structures

• antithesis

• parallelism

• allusion

• restatement