Below is a list of rhetorical devices that we studied. Definitions for these devices were taken from Silva Rhetoricae and from examples that we created or identified in the work of others.  Click on any device to get more information about it:

Accumulatio

Ad hominem

Alliteration

Anaphora 

antimetabole

Antithesis

Apophasis

Apostrophe

Asyndeton

Climax

Ellipsis

Epanalepsis

Epistrophe

Epitasis

Euphemism

Irony

Paralepsis

Rhetorical Question