Rhetorical Devices

Language descrining ideas and qualities rather than observable or specific things, people or places.

Latin. In an argument, this is an attack on one's opponent, rather than on the oppents ideas. ("Well your ugly"

A narrative or description having a second meaning beneth the surface one. A stroy, fictional of non fictional, in which characters, things, or events represent qualities or concepts.The interaction of these characters, things, and events is meant to reavel an abstraction or truth. (Books in loita)

An idirect reference to famous characters or events from history, literature, or mythology. ("I thought as i wiped my eyes on the corner of my apron. Penelope did this too." edna st vincent millay)

An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way.Also, the manner of expression of such an event or situation may be ambigous.Artful language may be ambigous.Unintntional ambiguity is usually vagueness.The scarlet letter is intentionally ambigous. (unclaer)

Placement of an event, person, or thing out of it's proper chronological relationship, sometimes unintentional, but often deliberate as an exercise in poetic license. (clock in julius ceasar. Language in Romeo + Juliet 1996)

Repetion of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentances in a row.This is a deliberate form of repetition and helps make the author's point more coherent. (School is... School is...)

The juxtapostion of contrasting ideas.Conjuction that express antithesis include but, yet, and while. Anthesis can occur when the wording contrasts, When the sense of the statement contrasts, or when both contrast. (I offered to help, but he refused my assistance)

Ethos-Appealing to the audience's sese of ethics, morals, or principles. Logos-Appealing to the sense of logic Pathos- Appealing to the emotions

Exploring a problem by investigating all sides of it; persuasion through reason:one of the cheif forms of discourse.the others being exposition, narration, and description.The purpose of argumentation is to convince by est. the truth or falsity of a proposition. (debate)

The original model, form, or pattern from which something is made or from which sometthing develops. (Once upon a time...)

An address to the dead as though they were living; to the absent as if present; the inanimate as if animate; to the unborn as if alive. (Hamlet to skull)

The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, especially stressed syllables with repetition of consonants. (mad as a hatter)

The repetition of intial consonant sounds in words as in (rough and ready)

When details are not stated but must be inferred by the reader or audience.