Professional Documents
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Rhetorical Devices
Rhetorical Devices
Rhetorical Devices
persuasive convincing
more
clearly emphasis clarity effectively
1 Alliteration
consonant sound repitinon of initial letter
2 Consonance
consonant sound i tepitition Of last letter
3 Assonance
Repetition of Vowel or non rhyming syllables
4 Sibilance
repetition of s sound
5 Metonomy
Referring to something else rather than actual
thing
ex White House Presidential house USA
Starbucks Coffee
6 Synecdoche
When a part Is used for mole whenwhole is used as part
e India won match against Pakistan
7 litotes meiosis
Understatement double negative
ex not unpleasant
8 logos
Appeal to logic
g Pathos
Appeal to emotion
10 Kairos
the most appropriate time to do say something
11 Ethos
to credibility trustworthiness
Appeal
12 Anaphora
tepitition in thebeginning of clause or phrase
Yes we can yes we can heal this nation yes we can repair this world
13 Epiphora
repitition in the end of a clause or phrase
14 Hypophora
When a person asks a question answers himself
Is Varied Sentence length
formed sentence
syntax arrangement of words to create well
16 Tricolor
List or three
Ex Eye It try it buy it
17 Allusion
An Indirect reference to something or someone
18 polysyndeton
7 When you use conjunchon one after the other
ex We have ships and men and money and stores
19 Parallelism
phrases in a sentence have similar or same grammatical structure
21 Crescendo
Arrangement of
words In order of increasing importance
22 Anticlimax Bathos
Used to create hunger
Ludicrous
silly
croissant
ex They came they saw they did abit Of Shopping
23 Zeugma
to modify two
using one word other words
ex she wore a hat a smile
24 Euphemism
usage Of soft word for
harsh word
ex tie compromise the truth
25 Transferred Epithet
Transferred from noun Its meant to describe to another noun in the statement
How
Art Architecture
retaining O
environment Consumerism as a result of
adequate waste Industrialization would overwhelm
managements sensitivities aesthetics