Examples!
In books I find the dead as if they were alive; in books I foresee things to come; in books warlike affairs are set forth; from books come forth the laws of peace. --Richard de Bury
Anaphora
When something repeats over and over again ON PURPOSE
Repetition
What does Ethos mean?
Character and Credibility
This back pack feels like it weighs a ton; it's like an elephant!
simile and hyperbole
Simile
Comparing two things using like or as.
They spent the day wondering, searching, thinking, understanding.
Asyndeton
When the first letter or sounds of close together words repeats
Alliteration
What does Pathos mean?
Emotional Appeal
Expletive and Understatement
Metaphor
directly comparing two things without like or as.
That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. –Neil Armstrong.
Antithesis
The repetition of the beginning parts of phrases
Anaphora
What does Logos mean?
Logic/Facts
He's a pig. She's a pig. I'm a pig. We're all pigs.
Metaphor and repetition.
Personification
giving human traits to something not alive
I went from neutral, to frustrated, to angry, to rabid in thirty seconds.
Climax
The repetition of the same word or words comes at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences
Epistrophe
This Device both raises and answers a question
Hypophora
Surprised, Henry hopped hundreds of feet in the air.
alliteration and hyperbole.
Allusion
A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event,
The code breakers worked constantly but rarely succeeded.
Chiasmus
Repeats the last word of one phrase, clause, or sentence at or very near the beginning of the next.
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction,
Apostrophe
Bang! Down goes the plates.
Bang! Down goes the bowls.
Bang! Down goes the dishes.
Onomatopoeia, Anaphora
A term from the Greek meaning “changed label” or “substitute name.” Metonymy is a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it.