Rhetorical devices

Definition: placing two Contrasting images or ideas next to each other for dramatic

affect

• Juxtaposition

• Hyperbole

• Understatement

• Polysyndeton

Definition: repeating the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or paragraph

• Epistrophe

• Parallelism

• Anaphoric:

• Asyndeton

Definition: Repeating the same wordor phrase at the end of successive clauses, sentences, or paragraphs

• Amplification

• Amplification

• Paradox

• Epistrophe

Definition: taking something that woul be particularly negative (harsh, cruel scary, etc.) and phrasing it in a much more positive light

• Rhetorical Question

• Euphemism

• Juxtaposition

• Amplification

Definition: An exaggeration used to emprasize a particular point or argument

• Epistrophe

• Polysyndeton

• Hyperbole

• Asyndeton

Constructing different parts of a complex sentence in an equal manners by using the same grammatical structures

• Amplification

• Paradox

• Parallelism

• Hyperbole

Definition: Using hypothetical questions lones (where the answer is already implied) to add evidence to a Critical argument

• Epistrophe

• Rhetorical Question

• Amplification

• Polysyndeton

Definition: Using targeted phrasing to make a very important development or occurrence sound less important than it really is

• Epistrophe

• Polysyndeton

• Juxtaposition

• Understatement

Definition: repeating an important word or phrase while adding more details and examples to it each time

• Amplification

• Parallelism

• Anaphoric

• Asyndeton

Definition: Contradictory ideas that might sound illogical, but with further investigation, might possibly be true

• Epistrophe

• Euphemism

• Paradox

• Polysyndeton