Example
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
What is Consonance?
To emphasize an idea in a sarcastic way. (Not in a mean way however)
What is an Understatement?
Opposites Attract.
Tip for Remembering: This Sentence is False.
What is a Paradox?
Example: I hate you. You hate all of them. All of them hate me.
What is Anadiplosis?
Why did the chicken cross the road?
What is a Pun?
To emphasize a particularly important idea the author wants to get across to the audience. To more directly connect ideas or focus on a concept by leaving out “extra” words.
What is Ellipsis?
Yoda. Just Yoda.
What is Inverted Syntax?
Example: Rome wasn’t built in a day.
What is an Idiom?
Tip for Remembering: Basically A VENN DIAGRAM but for text
What is an Analogy?
You tripped? Good, do it again but this time try not to catch yourself.
What is Farce?
To emphasize that the person speaking fits in with the regular people in the audience.
What is Colloquialism?
Just. Do. It.
What is a Rhetorical Fragment?
Word Usage: This is used during speeches frequently to reference something without directly saying it in your speech.
What is Allusion?
Tip for Remembering: Back in my day...
What is an Anecdote?
I came, I saw, I conquered.
What is an Asyndeton?
To repeat everything in inverted syntax but have normal syntax in front. Basically to, to basically add some extra pronounciation to it.
What is Epanalepsis?
Stuttering but it's allowed.
What is a Polysyndeton?
Tip for Remembering: Sweet and Sour Sauce
What is Juxtaposition?
Example: The cat in the hat had a rat with a bat, who's dat, name's Nat, on a mat like a gnat.
What is Assonance?
I’m never, never, never gonna give you up, never, never, never gonna let you down.
What is Parallelism?
Repetition with multiple words, pretty much has to be in order, but there can be words between the words. When it exists, it causes me harm. When it is there, it exists to cause me pain.
What is Anaphora?
There's no possible way that could be true.
What is Hyperbole?
Tip for Remembering: It could be you, It could be me, It could be anyone!
What is Epistrophe?
Example: Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
What is an Antithesis?