Rhetorical Devices English I

means: a question someone asks without expecting an answer.

• anaphora

• epistrophe

• rhetorical question

• parallelism

means: The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or phrases

• anaphora

• epistrophe

• antithesis

• parallelism

Two ideas, places, or characters placed beside each other for contrasting effect.

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Juxtaposition

• Chiasmus

A type of metaphor in which non-human things or ideas are given human qualities

• Personification

• Euphemism

• Irony

• Repetition

________________ means: a repeated grammatical pattern

• anthimeria

• parallelism

• asyndeton

• antimetabole

means: repetition of one or more words at the END of successive phrases or clauses

• anaphora

• epistrophe

• anthimeria

• apposition

An allusion is:

• A repetition of words or phrases to add emphasis

• Something you think you see but is not actually there

• A reference to either a historical event or another text meant to make a connection between them

• A short story meant to draw in the audience and illustrate an idea.

HYPERBOLE

• The recurrence of initial consonant sounds

• repeating words or phrases in reverse order

• makes an idea seem less important than it really is

• An exaggeration

SIMILE

• A comparison that does not use like or as

• A comparison that uses like or as

• Pairing a compliment and a criticism to lessen the impact

• Connecting two things

OXYMORON

• A comparison between two things that uses like or as

• A connection that is made between two things

• The combination of two words of opposite meaning

• Words that imitate the sound they describe