Rhetorical Terms & Appeals

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines.

• Metonymy

• Asyndeton

• Anaphora

• Epistrophe

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses.

• Synecdoche

• Epsitrophe

• Anaphora

• Polysyndeton

The purposeful repetition of conjunctions in a sentence.

• Paralinguistics

• Juxtaposition

• Asyndeton

• Polysyndeton

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

The purposeful omission of conjunctions in a sentence.

• Epistrophe

• Imagery

• Asyndeton

• Polysyndeton

In written speech, this refers to the choices an author makes when formatting words: ALL CAPS, ​italicizes, ​ Bold, ​“quotes”.

• Paralinguistics

• Imagery

• Diction

• Analogy

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

​Language that evokes any of the five senses.

• Symbol

• Personification

• Imagery

• Anecdote

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.W.9-10.3D

A question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.

• Asyndeton

• Paralinguistics

• Rhetorical Question

• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

CCSS.RI.9-10.8

CCSS.SL.9-10.3

A figure of speech in which a thing or concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept.

• Metonymy

• Synecdoche

• Metaphor

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa.

• Metaphor

• Asyndeton

• Synecdoche

• Metonymy

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A direct comparison that states on thing is another.

• Synecdoche

• Simile

• Allusion

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4