Rhetorical Devices

The use of a word to modify or govern two or more words usually in such a manner that it applies to each in a different sense or makes sense with only one

• Zeugma

• Synecdoche

• Metonymy

• Antithesis

The use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated

• Antithesis

• Metonymy

• Antithesis

• Synecdoche

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

• Antithesis

• Metaphor

• Irony

• Rhetorical Question

A part is put for the whole

• Zeugma

• Antithesis

• Synecdoche

• Metonymy

A statement made in the form of a question with no expectation of an answer

• Zeugma

• Rhetorical Device

• Rhetorical Question

• Metonymy

The use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning

• Metonymy

• Synecdoche

• Zeugma

• Irony

Omission of the conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words or clauses

• Zeugma

• Antithesis

• Asyndeton

• Metonymy