Rhetorical Devices
Pathos
Appealing to the audience's emotions
Analogy
a figure of speech that creates a comparison by showing how two seemingly different entities are alike, along with illustrating a larger point due to their commonalities.
Declarative Sentence
the kind of sentence that makes a statement or “declares” something.
Charged language
the use of words or phrases with strong emotional connotations as a way to influence the audience
Logos
An appeal to the reader’s logic using facts, figures, statistics
Collective diction
Words used to describe a group of people acting together. The effect is often to add a sense of legitimacy to a position or to pull the audience into the discussion.
Rhetorical question
a question that acts as a statement. It can be used for emphasis, provocation, or for drawing a conclusion statement from the fact at hand.
Understatement
literary device used to downplay a situation as less serious, less significant, or smaller than it really is
Allusion
An implied or indirect reference to a person, event, thing, or another text. Allusions work under the assumption that there is a general body of knowledge we are all familiar with.
Epistrophe
is when a certain phrase or word is repeated at the end of sentences or clauses that follow each other.
Anaphora
Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more consecutive lines
Ethos
An appeal to the reader using credibility
Parallelism ...
a literary device in which parts of the sentence are grammatically the same, or are similar in construction.
Juxtaposition
When two things are placed close together with a contrasting effect.
Antithesis
Antithesis is a literary device that refers to the juxtaposition of two opposing elements through the parallel grammatical structure