Rhetorical Devices Flashcards
Enallage/Transferred Epithet
Giving human like qualities to an inanimate object
Anaphora
The repetition of a word of phrase or form at the beginning of successive clauses
Onomatopoeia
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
Alliteration
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
Synthesis
Interlocked word order: ABAB
Chiasmus
ABBA
Hendiadys
Group of nouns translated as single idea
Polysyndeton
An over abundance of conjunctions
Asyndeton
The omission of conjunctions
Tricolon
Respiration of three similar word forms
Enjambment
The continuation of a unit of thought beyond the end of one verse and into the first few feet of the next
Hyperbaton
The distanced placement of two (or more) words which are logically meant to be understood together
Hyperbole
An exaggeration for rhetorical effect
Litotes
Understatement, often enhanced by the use of the negative
Simile
A figure of speech which likens or asserts an explicit comparison between two different things
