Rhetorical Devices

Question 1

UNDERSTATEMENT

Answer 1

A rhetorical form in which the force of a descriptive statement is less than what one would normally expect.

Question 2

Procatalepsis

Answer 2

Deals specifically with objections, usually does so without asking the question

Question 3

HYPOPHORA

Answer 3

Tech niche of asking a question, then proceeding to answer it

Question 4

ANALOGY

Answer 4

Reference to some fairly well known event,place or person

Question 5

ALLUSION

Answer 5

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

Question 6

LITOTES

Answer 6

a form of understatement that uses the word opposite or contrary to the condition stated typically for ironic effect