Definitions
This linguistic technique compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as"
What is an metaphor?
"Life is a roller coaster" is an example of this figure of speech
What is a metaphor?
Identify the rhetorical device: "Busy as a bee"
What is an analogy?
Alliteration
A repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
A figure of speech that assigns human characteristics to non-human objects or ideas
What is personification?
"The pen is mightier than the sword" demonstrates this rhetorical device
What is antithesis?
Identify the device in: "The White House announced a new policy"
What is metonymy?
Assonance
Repeated vowel sounds within words
A rhetorical device that deliberately uses a word in an unusual or incorrect way
"O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman is a classic example of this technique
What is apostrophe?
Identify the device in: "Sing, O Muse, of the rage of Achilles"
What is anastrophe?
Anaphora
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
A figure of speech where a part represents the whole or vice versa
What is synecdoche?
"Parting is such sweet sorrow" from Romeo and Juliet is an example of this device
What is an oxymoron?
Identify the device in: "The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas"
Allusion
A reference to a well-known person, event, or work of art
A rhetorical strategy that anticipates and addresses potential counterarguments before they are made
What is procatalepsis?
"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here" from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is an example of this technique
What is understatement?
Identify the device in: "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more"
What is antithesis?
Anadiplosis
A technique of repeating the end of one clause at the beginning of the next