Rhetorical Device Starter

What devices/techniques use figures of speech and other such techniques to persuade and influence people.

• Figurative Language

• Rhetorical Devices

• SAPF

• None of the options.

A question that you ask without expecting an answer. Intended to make a point, to persuade or for literary effect.

• Rule of Three

• Contrast

• Rhetorical question

• Repetition

Writers identify differences between two subjects, places, persons, things or ideas. Simply, it is a type of opposition between two objects highlighted to emphasize their differences.

• Rhetorical device

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Contrast

A writing principle that suggests that points/items introduced in threes are more humorous or effective and engaging.

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Simile

• Rule of Three

When words or phrases are repeated in a literary work or speech to reinforce a writer's point.

• Repetition

• Euphemism

• Alliteration

• Personification

Repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighbouring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs)

• Repetition

• Onomatopoeia

• Pathetic Fallacy

• Alliteration

Repetition of similar sounds (usually, exactly the same sound) in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words.

For e.g

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

All the King’s horses, And all the King’s men

Couldn’t put Humpty together again!

• Rhyme

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Idioms

A word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes. E.g Clacked, Ka-boom!

• Alliteration

• Oxymoron

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Pairing two words that are opposing or contradictory to each other.

E.g Silent scream, terribly good

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Simile

• Rhyme