Rhetorical Devices

“Rhetorical Device” just means a fancy way of saying something.

Rhetorical devices are useful. It is how something is said, not what is said that usually wins the day. Having a good idea or something important to say is not enough. One must also get the message across to the intended recipient(s), and do it in such a way that both the message and its importance are received and understood.

Just click on a rhetorical device on the list below to read a definition as well as some examples. You will have to use your browser's back button to return to this page.

                List of Rhetorical Devices

Alliteration	Allusion	Amplification	Anacoluthon	Anadiplosis	Analogy
Anaphora	Anastrophe	Antanagoge	Antistrophe	Antithesis	Antimetabole
Antiphrasis	Aporia	Aposiopesis	Apostrophe	Appositive	Archaism
Assonance	Asyndeton	Brachylogy	Cacophony	Catachresis	Chiasmus
Climax	Conduplicatio	Diacope	Dirimens Copulatio	Distinctio	Enthymeme
Enumeratio	Epanalepsis	Epithet	Epizeuxis	Eponym	Equality by association
Euphemism	Exemplum	Expletive	Hendiadys	Hypallage	Hyperbaton
Hyperbole	Hypophora	Hypotaxis	Hysteron-Proteron	Irony	Litotes
Metaphor	Metabasis	Metanoia	Metonymy	Onomatopoeia	Oxymoron
Paradox	Paraprosdokian	Parallelism	Parataxis	Paronomasia	Personification
Pleonasm	Polysyndeton	Praeteritio	Procatalepsis	Prolepsis	Qualified metaphor or simile
Rhetorical question	Scesis Onomaton	Sententia	Simile	Syllepsis	Symploce
Synchysis	Synecdoche	Synesis	Tautology	Understatement	Zeugma

You have concentrated on fallacies for your rhetorical devices. There is a connection, but they are different concepts. Do you understand the difference?

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