Wednesday, January 31, 2018

A Handy List of Rhetorical Strategies



Reference to one thing as another
  • Allusion
  • Synecdoche
Word play/puns
  • Zeugma
Overstatement/understatement
  • Hyperbole
  • Litotes
Semantic Inversions
  • Rhetorical question
  • Hypophora
  • Irony


Structures of balance
  • Parallelism
  • Antithesis
Omission
  • Asyndeton
Repetition
  • Anaphora
  • Epistrophe
  • Anadiplosis
  • Epanalepsis
  • Polysyndeton
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