An example of this device is shown below:

"I will sing victories for you!"

This is the strict, literal dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color.

The following sentence is an example of which rhetorical device?

"The European soldiers killed six of the remaining villagers, the American soldiers, eight."

This device is any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice.

This is an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language.

This device takes two words, phrases, images, or ideas and places them close together or side-by-side for comparison or contrast.

An example of this device is shown below:

"He's no fool."

This is another term for understatement.

This device allows a writer to create a new or imaginary word.

The following are examples of this device:

buzz, rattle, squish, click, grunt, clatter

This is the angle of considering things, and in literature, it is the narrator's position in relation to the story being told.

These are the specific features of a text, written or spoken, that cause them to be meaningful, purposeful, and effective for the audience.

Bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt of ridicule someone or something.

This is the author's or speaker's attitude toward the subject.

An example of this device is shown below:

"She exhausted both her audience and her repertoire."

An example of this device is shown below:

"You can eat well or you can sleep well."

An example of this literary scheme is shown below:

"Naked I rose from the earth; to the grave I fall clothed."

This is the writer's word choices, especially with regard to correctness, clarity, or effectiveness.

The following sentence shown below is an example of this device:

"You pays your money, and you takes your chances."

"Yo mama" jokes are an example of this rhetorical device:

This is the term for an appeal to an audience through the presentation of logic.

This is an example of which device:

"Carthage was a beehive of buzzing workers."

The following sentence is an example of which device?

"Cowards die many times before their deaths."

This is a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense, but upon closer inspection, contains some degree of truth.

This is a set of persons, events, objects, and relations presenting an actual or potential need which can be completely or partially removed if discourse can so compel human decision or action as to bring about the significant modification of the need.

This is a work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule.

The following sentence from the literary work Macbeth is an example of which device?

"Fair is foul and foul is fair."

This is the use of slang or informalities in speech or writing that gives the work a conversational, familiar tone, but is not generally acceptable in formal writing.

The following examples are illustrations of which device?

"Man's inhumanity to man."

"Common sense is not so common."

The following is an example of which device?

"Thirty-one cakes, dampened with whiskey, bask on window sills and shelves. Who are they for? Friends."

This device intentionally misspells a word (such as "dawg" for "dog" or adding "ette" to the end of a word to emphasize a feminine nature) to create a rhetorical effect.

This is when a writer establishes similar patterns of grammatical structure and length (Example: King Alfred tried to make the law clear, precise, and equitable."

When something is like something else.

This device is a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art.

The nonliteral, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning

The following is an example of which device?

"He's learning fast; are you earning fast?"

The following is an example of which device?

"If we cannot strike offenders in the heart, let us strike them in the wallet."

This device is a work that closely imitates the style or content of another with specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule.

This is a deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion.

This occurs when multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage are present.

This device is used when a less offensive word or concept needs to be substituted for a generally unpleasant word of concept.

This term shows when a speaker/writer elicits an emotional response from his/her audience.

This device uses a part of a physical object to represent the whole object, such as saying "Twenty eyes watched our every move."

The following is an example of which device?

"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans..."

This is another term for rhetorical question.

This term describes words, phrases, or a general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish.

This device mixes one type of sensory input with another in an impossible way, such as the following example:

"The scent of the rose rang like a bell through the garden."

This is a short narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode or event.

This is an appeal to a reader through the speaker's credibility

This is a sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end and is preceded by a dependent clause.

The following is an example of which device?

"Evil men fear authority; good men cherish it."

The following is an example of which device?

"The ground thirsts for rain; the wind whispered secrets to us."

This device breaks off as if unable to continue, as is the following example:

"The fire surrounds them while -- I cannot go on."

The following is an example of which device?

"This term, I am taking biology and English and history and math and music and physics and sociology."

The following excerpt from a poem written by John Donne expresses this rhetorical device:

"Oh, Death, be not proud"

This device twists the meaning of words.

This example from Shakespeare's Othello illustrates which device?

"Call up her father. Rouse him. Make after him, poison his delight, proclaim him in the streets..."

This is the way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences.