Rhetorical Devices

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Abstract

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Language instead of images

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As hominem

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Attack on the person instead of ideasall

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Allegory

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Underlying moral

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Alliteraton

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Repetition of consonant

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Allusion

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Reference to a well-knowing thing

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Analogy

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Compare two similar but different things

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Anaphora

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Repetition of word or phrase

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Anecdote

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Simple narrative of an incident to make point

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Annotation

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Notes on the side

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Antithesis

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Two contrasting images balanced by word or phrase

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Aphorism

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Witty short statement

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Apostrophe

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Calling imagery/dead or absent person

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Argumentation

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Prove validity of a point

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds

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Asyndeton

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Commas used to separate a series of words

Conjunction is ommited

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Cacophony

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Harsh,awkward or dissonant sounda

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Caricature

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Exaggerates a specific feature of a person

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Colloquialism

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Informal language "Y'all"

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Coherence

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All the parts contribute to the development

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Concrete language

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Describes ppl places, things, rather than ideas or qualities

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Connotation

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Suggested meaning

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Consonance

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Repetition of consonant sounds

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Conundrum

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A riddle

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Deduction

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General to specific

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Denotation

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Literal meaning

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Description

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Picture through detailed observation

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Diction

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Word choice

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Didactic

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To instruct or to teach

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Discourse

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Description, exposition narration

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Dissonance

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Sounds that don't go together

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Dramatic irony

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Reader aware of inconsistency between a characters perception of situation and the truth

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Dynamic characted

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Changes significantly

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Emotional appeal

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Readers emotional pathos

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Epigraph

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The use of quotations at the beginning of a work that hints it's theme

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Ethical appeal

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Ethos

To respect and believe him

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Euphemism

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A more acceptable and usually more pleasant way of saying something that might be inappropriate or uncomfortable

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Euphony

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Succession of harmonious sounds

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Example

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Representative of a general pattern

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Explication

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Interpreting or finding the meaning of a text

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Exposition

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Revelation to audience of setting and background to understand plot

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Extended metaphot

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Sustained comparison, often referred as a conceit

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False analogy

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Not sufficiently parallel

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Figurative language

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Has similes and metaphors

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Figures of speech

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Expressions of similes, metaphors, and personification

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Foil

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Points out qualities of another character

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Foreshadowing

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Hint to suggest larger event that occurs later in the work

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Freight train

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sentence consists of 3 very short clauses joined by conjunctions

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Generalization

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Bases claim on isolated example certain rather than provable

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Genre

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A type of literary work

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Hubris

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A heroes downfall because of pride of ambition

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Hunor

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Anything that causes laughter

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration in order to humor

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Image

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A sensory experience or an object perceived by sense

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Imagery

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Apple as to one or more senses

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Induction

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Moving from series of specifics. ->generalization

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Inference

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Conclusion drawn from presented details

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Interior monologue

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Recording a conversation that occurs inside a characters head

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Invective

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A verbally abusive attack

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Inversion

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Reversing the customary(subject first, then verb, then complement) order of elements in a sentence or phrase

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Irony

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Outcome is opposite to what is expected

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Jargon

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Special language of a profession or group

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Logic

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The process of reasoning

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Logical fallacy

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A mistake in reasoning

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Lyrical

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Songlike;characterized by emotions, subjectivity, and imagination

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech in which one thing is referred to as another; for example, "my love is a fragile flower"

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Metonymy

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A figure of speech that uses the name of an object,person, or idea to represent something with which it is associated, such as using "the crown"

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Mood

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Emotional attitude of a work

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Moral

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Lesson of a fiction or non-fiction story

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Motif

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Main them or subject of work that is elaborated in the development of piece, repeated pattern.

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Narration

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The telling of a story in fiction, nonfiction , poetry, or drama; or of the four modes of discourse

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Negative-positive

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Sentence that begins by stating what is not true, then ending by stating what is true

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Non-sequitur

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Laying for "it does not follow" when one statements isn't logically connected to another

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Objectivity

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An impersonal presentation of events and characters. It is a writers attempt to remove himself or herself from any subjectivity , personal involvement in a story

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Onomatopoeia

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The use of words that sound like what they mean, such as hiss, buzz, slam, and boom

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Oversimplication

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When a writer obscures or denies the complexity of the issues in an argument

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Oxymoron

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A figure of speech composed of contradictory words or phrases such as "wise fool" , "pretty ugly"

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Pacing

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The movement of a literary device from one point or one section to another

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Parable

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A short take that teaches a moral; similar to but shorter than an allegory

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Paradox

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A statement that seems to contradict itself but that turns out to have a rational meaning, as in this quotation from Henry David Thoreau "I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude"

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Parallelosm

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The technique of arranging words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures by placing them dive by side and making them similar in form

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Parody

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A work that ridicules the style of another work

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Pathos

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An element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion

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Pedantic

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Term used to describe writing that borders on lecturing. It is scholarly and academic and often overly difficult and distant

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Personification

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The attribution of human qualities to a nonhuman or an inanimate object

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Persuasion

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A form of argumentation, one of the four modes of discourse; language intended to convince through appeals to reason or emotion

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Point of biew

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The perspective from which a story is presented

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Polysyndeton

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Sentence which uses and or another conjunction (with no commas) appears in from X,Y,Z