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stylistic devices
stylistic and rhetorical devices list 1
Question | Answer |
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Litotes | Understatement; a statement that says less than what it means, The opposite of HYPERBOLE. |
Hyperbole | overstatement; a figure of speech in which the author over-exaggerates to accomplish some purpose usually emphasis |
Anecdote | A brief story used in an essay to illustrate a point |
Imagery | Words or phrases that create pictures or images in the reader's mind; description based on any of the five senses |
parallelism | Recurrent syntactical similarity. In this structural arrangement, several parts of a sentence or several sentences are developed and phrased similarly to show that the ideas in the parts or sentences are equal in importance. |
Antitheses | A figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas. |
Metaphor | A comparison in which an unknown item is understood by directly comparing it to a known item |
Simile | An indirect comparison using "like" or "as" |
Diction | A writer's/speaker's choice of words intended to convey a particular effect |
Syntax | The arrangement of words and the order of grammatical elements in a sentence. |
Logos | An appeal to the logic of the readers/audience |
Pathos | an appeal to the emotions of the readers/audience |
Ethos | An appeal based on the credibility of the author |