Rhetorical Devices-Acc.

A brief reference to a real or fictitious person, place, event, or work of art.

• Personification
• Allusion
• Juxtaposition
• Metaphor

An expression of meaning that compares two unlike things.

• Simile
• Personification
• Metaphor
• Allusion

Giving inanimate objects human characteristics.

• Simile
• Personification
• Allusion
• Alliteration

A comparison of two unlike things using the words “like” or “as.”

• Simile
• Personification
• Juxtaposition
• Metaphor

The repetition of the same consonant sounds repeated in a group of words.

• Alliteration
• Consonance
• Assonance
• Onomatopoeia

The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of adjacent or closely placed words.

• Alliteration
• Consonance
• Assonance
• Onomatopoeia

The intentional use of words that sound like their meaning.

• Alliteration
• Consonance
• Assonance
• Onomatopoeia

The repetition of vowel sounds between different consonants inside a line.

• Alliteration
• Consonance
• Assonance
• Onomatopoeia

The intentional use of an apparent contradiction.

• Hyperbole
• Oxymoron
• Rhetorical Question
• Synecdoche

A gross exaggeration to make an effect or to highlight something.

• Hyperbole
• Oxymoron
• Rhetorical Question
• Juxtaposition