1. Rhetorical Devices

2. Rhetorical Question
A question to which no answer is expected

3. Anaphora
Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive clauses
Example: “We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans….” (Winston Churchill)

4. Antithesis
Opposition, or contrast of words or ideas in a balanced or parallel construction
Example: “Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.”

5. Hyperbole
Exaggeration for emphasis

6. Asyndeton
Lack of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words
Example: “He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac.” (Jack Kerouac)

7. Allusion
Reference to something well-known

8. Repetition

9. Metaphor
Implied comparison

10. Chiasmus
A verbal pattern in which the second part is balanced against the first with the parts reversed
Example: “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”

11. Epistrophe
Repetition at the end of successive clauses or phrases (opposite of anaphora)