Oratory and Rhetoric/Rhetorical Devices

Rhetorical Devices

Alliteration

Allusion

Amplification

Anacoluthon

Anadiplosis

Analogy

Anaphora

Antanagoge

Antimetabole

Antiphrasis

Antithesis

Apophasis

Aporia

Aposiopesis

Apostrophe

Appositive

Assonance

Asyndeton

Catachresis

Chiasmus

Climax

Conduplicatio

Diacope

Dirimens Copulatio

Distinctio

Enthymeme

Enumeratio

Epanalepsis

Epistrophe

Epithet

Epizeuxis

Eponym

Exemplum

Sentential Adverb

Hyperbaton

Hyperbole

Hypophora

Hypotaxis

Litotes

Metabasis

Metanoia

Metaphor

Metonymy

Onomatopoeia

Oxymoron

Parallelism

Parataxis

Parenthesis

Personification

Pleonasm

Polysyndeton

Procatalepsis

Rhetorical Question

Scesis Onomaton

Sententia

Simile

Symploce

Synecdoche

Understatement

Zeugma