Rhetorical Devices #1 Flashcards
Argumentation
A form of persuasion based on reasons.
Simile
A figurative usage that compares. Uses “like” or “as” or “if”
Metaphor
Figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one for another, suggesting some similarity.
Alliteration
The repetition of initial identical consonant sounds or vowel sounds in successive words or syllables that repeat.
*always at beginning
Assonance
Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity.
Consonance
Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity.
*doesn’t have to be at beginning of word.
Hyperbole
Figurative language that exaggerates.
Personification
A type of figurative language which attributes human qualities to non-human subjects.
Oxymoron
A rhetorical antithesis. Apparently contradictory terms are grouped together & suggest a paradox.
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction such as liberty or love.
Anaphora
Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause AT THE BEGINNING of two or more sentences in a row-for emphasis.
Apposition
A word or group of words placed beside a noun or noun substitute to supplement its meaning.
Anadiplosis
(“doubling back”) The rhetorical repetition of one or several words; specifically, repetition of a word that ends one clause at the beginning of the next.
*middle
Anachronism
The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order.
Synecdoche
Understanding one thing with another; the use of a part for the whole, or the whole for the part.
ex. Bring your feet to the dance.
