Rhetorical Devices
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| similarity of structure ina pair or series of related words, phrases, clauses | ||
| parallel structure when parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure but also in length | ||
| juxtapositiono fcontrasting ideas, often in parallel structure | ||
| inversion of the natural or usual word order | ||
| insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence | ||
| two coordinate elements side by side, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first | ||
| deliberate omission of a word or of words which are readily implied by the context | ||
| deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses | ||
| deliberate use of many conjunction | ||
| repitition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words | ||
| repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants | ||
| repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginnings of successive clauses | ||
| repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses | ||
| repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of that clause | ||
| repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause | ||
| arrangement of words, phrases or clauses in an order of increasing importance | ||
| repetition of words insuccessive clauses in reverse grammatical order | ||
| reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses | ||
| repetition of words derived from the same root | ||
| implied comparison between two things of unlike nature | ||
| explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature | ||
| figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole | ||
| substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant | ||
| repetition of a word in two different senses | ||
| use of words alike in sound but different in meaning | ||
| use of a word understood differently in relation to two or more other words, which it modifies or governs | ||
| the substitution of one part of speech for another | ||
| substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name or of a proper name for a quality assosciated with the name | ||
| investing abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities | ||
| the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect | ||
| underexaggeration | ||
| asking a question without implying a necessary answer | ||
| use of a word in such a way as to convey a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word | ||
| use of words whose sound echoes the sense | ||
| the yoking of two terms which are ordinarily contradictory | ||
| an apparently contradictory statement that nevertheless contains a measure of truth |