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DEVICES

1. Anaphora
2. Epiphora [creates a sense of rhythm and pitch]
3. Combination of several or one anaphoras/ epiphoras → symploke
4. Parallel lines
5. Anadiplosis → the last word is used to continue the next sentence
6. Polysyndeton → when u have multiple and’s
7. Asyndeton → multiple commas, semicolons or full stops
8. Rhetorical question
9. Multiple exclamation marks → to create a sense of shock
10. Aporia → a sense of doubt and question to the audience; pretending that you are in
doubt so that you expect people to think
11. Hyperbole
12. Simile and metaphor
13. Antitheton → the opposition of two facts of contrasting content
14. Personification
15. Alliteration
16. Consonance, assonance, internal rhymes
17. Analogies
18. Antimetabole → when you are changing the positions of words [eg. the absence of
evidence is not the evidence of absence]
19. Catachresis → using two metaphors which makes sense but is very odd
20. Conduplication → repeating on word or phrase and multiple different clauses
successfully
21. Distinctio → explaining the phrase clearly to the reader
22. Epitheton → is a adjective, adverb to describe an idea
23. Exemplum → give an idea, and then an own life story to explain and support it
24. Paradox
25. metabasis → a transitional summary
26. Anectode→ reveling a short narrative to make it seem more personal

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