This rhetorical device involves the direct usage of conjunctions.
ex: "The frenzied fields, and doghouses and hills and trees and ditches and gardens."
What is polysyndeton.
100
This rhetorical device is a subtype of parallelism. It is defined as the exact repition of words at the beginning of phrases.
ex:The I have a dream speech.
What is anaphora.
200
This rhetorical device involves two unlike things being compared using like or as.
ex: Her hair was as red as fire.
What is a simile.
200
This rhetorical device involves the deliberate exaggeration of a situation.
ex: He ate everything in the house.
What is hyperbole.
300
The three types of appeals
What is Ethos, Pathos, Logos
300
a question asked for an effect, and not actually requiring an answer.
What is a rhetorical question?
300
This rhetorical device involves a direct or indirect reference to somthing which is commonly known.
ex:'Christy didn't like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything except the bare necessities'..
What is an Allusion.
400
This rhetorical device involves the direct omission of conjunctions often producing a rapid tempo.
ex: "They dove, splashed, floated, splashed, swam, snorted."
(James T. Farrell, Young Lonigan)
What is asyndeton.
400
A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity