Rhetorical Choices
Repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words
Alliteration
The use of words whose sounds echo their sense.
Onomatopoeia
A set of similarly structured words, phrases, or clauses
Parallelism
Attributing human qualities to inhuman beings/inanimate objects
Personification
Regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of phrases or paragraphs
Anaphora
When two extremes are put next to each other (i.e., heaven and hell)
Antithesis
the inversion of the natural or usual word order.
Anastrophe
A question with no answer or an obvious answer
Rhetorical Question
Exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.
Hyperbole
The repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause.
Anadiplosis
The repetition of similar vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of adjacent words.
Assonance
The repetition of words/phrases at the end of successive clauses or sentences (like anaphora but in reverse)
Epistrophe
When the first clause or phrase is reversed in the second
Chiasmus
Identifying one thing with something closely associated
Metonymy
Two contradictory terms or ideas used together
Oxymoron
The use of many conjunctions; has the effect of slowing down the reader
Polysyndeton
Conjunctions are omitted producing fast-paced prose
Asyndeton
Opposite of hyperbole; intensifies an idea by understatement
Litotes
A statement that appears to be contradictory but has some truth
Paradox
Using a part to represent the whole
Synecdoche