Rhetorical Devices

Question 1

What is a Rhetorical Question?

Answer 1

Questions which do not require an answer

Question 2

What is Hypophora?

Answer 2

Posing a question and then immediately answering it yourself

Question 3

What is Epiplexis?

Answer 3

Several rhetorical questions in a row

Question 4

What is Antithesis?

Answer 4

Contrasting two opposing ideas within the same sentence

Question 5

What is Hyperbole?

Answer 5

Exaggeration for effect

Question 6

What is Paralellism?

Answer 6

Consecutive sentences of parts of senate fea which are similar in structure

Question 7

What are Anecdotes?

Answer 7

Short stories or examples to illustrate your point

Question 8

What is an Analogy?

Answer 8

Making a link between what you are describing and something else which is unrelated

Question 9

What is Anaphora?

Answer 9

Repeating the same word at the start of consecutive sentences or phrases

Question 10

What is Epiphora?

Answer 10

Repeating the same words at the end of consecutive sentences or phrases

Question 11

What is Auxesis?

Answer 11

Gradually building up/ increasing in size

Question 12

What is Epizeuxis?

Answer 12

Repeating the same word consecutively

Question 13

What is Anadiaplosis?

Answer 13

When the last word of a sentence is then repeated as the first word of the following sentence

Question 14

What is Litotes?

Answer 14

Understatement for effect