Oratory and Rhetoric/Rhetorical Devices

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Rhetorical Devices[edit | edit source]

Alliteration[edit | edit source]

Allusion[edit | edit source]

Amplification[edit | edit source]

Anacoluthon[edit | edit source]

Anadiplosis[edit | edit source]

Analogy[edit | edit source]

Anaphora[edit | edit source]

Antanagoge[edit | edit source]

Antimetabole[edit | edit source]

Antiphrasis[edit | edit source]

Antithesis[edit | edit source]

Apophasis[edit | edit source]

Aporia[edit | edit source]

Aposiopesis[edit | edit source]

Apostrophe[edit | edit source]

Appositive[edit | edit source]

Assonance[edit | edit source]

Asyndeton[edit | edit source]

Catachresis[edit | edit source]

Chiasmus[edit | edit source]

Climax[edit | edit source]

Conduplicatio[edit | edit source]

Diacope[edit | edit source]

Dirimens Copulatio[edit | edit source]

Distinctio[edit | edit source]

Enthymeme[edit | edit source]

Enumeratio[edit | edit source]

Epanalepsis[edit | edit source]

Epistrophe[edit | edit source]

Epithet[edit | edit source]

Epizeuxis[edit | edit source]

Eponym[edit | edit source]

Exemplum[edit | edit source]

Sentential Adverb[edit | edit source]

Hyperbaton[edit | edit source]

Hyperbole[edit | edit source]

Hypophora[edit | edit source]

Hypotaxis[edit | edit source]

Litotes[edit | edit source]

Metabasis[edit | edit source]

Metanoia[edit | edit source]

Metaphor[edit | edit source]

Metonymy[edit | edit source]

Onomatopoeia[edit | edit source]

Oxymoron[edit | edit source]

Parallelism[edit | edit source]

Parataxis[edit | edit source]

Parenthesis[edit | edit source]

Personification[edit | edit source]

Pleonasm[edit | edit source]

Polysyndeton[edit | edit source]

Procatalepsis[edit | edit source]

Rhetorical Question[edit | edit source]

Scesis Onomaton[edit | edit source]

Sententia[edit | edit source]

Simile[edit | edit source]

Symploce[edit | edit source]

Synecdoche[edit | edit source]

Understatement[edit | edit source]

Zeugma[edit | edit source]