Rhetorical Devices

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Figures of speech that deal with word order, syntax, letters, and sounds, rather than the meaning

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Scheme

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Placing human characteristics on nonhuman objects

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Personification

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Appeal to emotion

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Pathos

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Application of a word or phrase to someone that describes that persons attributes or qualities.

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Epithet

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Reference to other stories or different history events in books

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Allusion

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Appeal to logic

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Logos

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Appeal to ethics

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Ethos

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Stylistic device that can be defined as the repitition of phrases or words at the END of the clauses or sentences

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Epistrophe

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Classification of different kinds of books

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Genre

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Describes the way that the author uses words

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Style

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Any reoccurring element that has symbolic significance in a story

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Motif

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Comparing two things using like or as

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Simile

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A conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement

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Non-sequitur

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To REDUPLICATE words in successive clauses that concepts to each other.

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Anadiplosis

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Seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.

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Paradox

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The repeated sound of the first letter in a series of multiple words.

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Alliteration

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Tongue twister

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Exaggeration

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Hyperbole

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CHARACTERS & THEIR ACTIONS are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts.

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Juxtaposition

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Mock w/ often satirical or ironic remarks

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sarcasm

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Several coordinating conjuction are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect (lions and tigers and bears oh my)

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Polysyndeton

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Repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make a clearer idea

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Repetition

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The plot goes ahead of time (flashforward)

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Prolepsis

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Literary work designed to make the audience laugh or feel amused

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Wit

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Using an incorrect word in place of one that is similar in pronunciation

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Malapropism

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Presenting ideas, characters, etc appealing to the 5 senses like hearing, seeing, smell etc

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Synaestheia

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Figure of speech where an object, person, or situation has another meaning in the context.

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Symbol

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Story, poem, picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden moral or political meaning

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Allegory

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Words spelled exactly how they sound (childish gambino)

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Onomatopoeia

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Adjective the describes words, phrases, etc overly scholary

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pedantic

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Formula that is true in every possible interpretation; propositional logic.

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Tautology

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Truuuu

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Combination of contradictory WORDS side by side

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Oxymoron

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Insulting, abusive, or highly critical language

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Invective

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Sounds like infected

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Short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person

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Anecdote

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Antidote

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LOGICAL FALLACY in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author or the person presenting the claim or argument

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Adhominum

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From the Greek for "reckoning together" a deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises

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Syllogism

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Similarity in structure in a PAIR of series of related words, phrases, or clauses

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Parallelism

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CONTRAST between expectations of a situation are and what is really the case

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Irony

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The moment in the story where characters achieve realization (eureka!!)

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Epiphany

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Figure of speech that REPLACES the name of something with the name of something else which it is closely associated

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Metonymy/ synecdote

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Sermon

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Homily

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To omit or to leave something on one side

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Paraleipsis

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Relating to, or being, the normal spoken for of a language

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Vernacular

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Ironic minimalizing of fact, presenting something as less significant than it Is

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Understatement

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Work that targets human vices and social institutions and convections for reform or ridicule

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Satire

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Main clause followed by phrases and/or clauses

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Cumulative sentence

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The dictionary meaning of a word

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Denotation

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Sharp, harsh, hissing and unmelodious sounds, primarily those of consonants

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Cacophony

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omission of the conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words or clauses (as in "we ran, laughed, loved."

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Asyndeton

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Two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversed of their structures/ phrase or sentence repeated in REVERSE order for artistic effect.

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Chiasmusus

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omit some parts of a sentence or events which allows the READERS to FILL it out (...)

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Ellipsis

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Writer or speaker detaches himself from the reality and addresses an imaginary character

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Apostrophe

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Works often have morals to impart or are written to teach us something about religion, philosophy, history, or politics

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Didactic

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Deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect

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Anaphora

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Comparison between two things

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Analogy

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Fanciful expression in writing or speech: an elaborate metaphor

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Conceit

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The choice & use of words & phrases in speech or writing

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Diction

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Main clause or predicate at the END

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Perodic sentence

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Word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally acceptable

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Metaphor

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Kinder, gentler way of saying the bitter truth

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Euphemism

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Phrase or figure of speech that could have TWO meanings

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Double entrende

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Ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressing by the negative of its contrary

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Litotes

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Writing that appeals to the FIVE (5) senses

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Imagery

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your own definition of a word based on your personal and emotional associations with it.

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Connotation

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rhetorical term for the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words, although it's use may be grammatically or logically correct with only one.

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Zuegma

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Stylistic device, showing how fast the story unfolds

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Pacing

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General character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.

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Tone

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Language used by writers to produce images in readers' minds and to express ideas in fresh, vivid, and imaginative ways

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Figurative language

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Arrangement of words & phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language

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Syntax

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Change in mood or attitude that is typically accompanied by a corresponding change in the focus & language of a literary scene

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Shift

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Word or phrase that is NOT formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation

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Colbaquialism

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An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect

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Parody

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An individual feature, fact, or item

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Detail

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Particular attitude or way of considering a matter

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Point of view

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A figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression (tv _____)

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Trope

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Rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences

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Antithesis