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Slide 2 Slide 3 repetition of initial consonant sound with several words Slide 4 alliteration Slide 5 similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses Slide 6 parallelism Slide 7 using a single feature to represent a whole Slide 8 metonymy Slide 9 art of persuasion in writing, speaking, and other media Slide 10 rhetoric Slide 11 opposition or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel structure Slide 12 antithesis Slide 13 Figure of speech that says one thing is another in order to explain by comparison Slide 14 metaphor Slide 15 paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another Slide 16 oxymoron Slide 17 brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art Slide 18 allusion Slide 19 placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts Slide 20 juxtaposition Slide 21 sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end Slide 22 periodic sentence Slide 23 a change in normal word order, such as the placement of the verb before the subject Slide 24 inversion Slide 25 Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines Slide 26 anaphora Slide 27 appeal to emotion Slide 28 pathos Slide 29 sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to action Slide 30 hortative sentence Slide 31 arrangement of words Slide 32 syntax Slide 33 omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words Slide 34 asyndeton Slide 35 attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea Slide 36 personification Slide 37 Any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consist in the use of words in other than their literal sense; artful diction Slide 38 trope Slide 39 repetition of words in reverse order Slide 40 antimetabole Slide 41 Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on Slide 42 cumulative sentence Slide 43 appealing to credibility, character, and trustworthiness Slide 44 ethos Slide 45 word choice Slide 46 diction Slide 47 This term includes such devices as alliteration and assonance (that purposefully arrange sounds) and antithesis, asyndeton, and anaphora etc. (that arrange words for effect) creating artful syntax. Slide 48 scheme Slide 49 appeal to reason using details, examples, facts, statistical data, or expert testimony as support Slide 50 logos Slide 51 sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat Slide 52 imperative sentence Slide 53 a construction in which one word (usually a verb) modifies or governs often in different, sometimes incongruent ways two or more words in a sentence Slide 54 zeugma Slide 55 old-fashioned or outdated choice of words Slide 56 art of persuasion in writing, speaking, and other words Slide 57 rhetoric