Alliteration - Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.., Allusion - She acts like Scrooge with her money and will not buy anything if she does not need it., Analogy - Finding my keys was like finding a needle in a haystack., Anaphora - "So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania..." - Martin Luther King Jr, Anecdote - I once had a border collie. She was so smart! Every morning, I'd open up the front door and she'd run out, pick up the newspaper and deliver it to my husband at the breakfast table., Climax - Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane!, Chiasmus - “Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.” (Lord Byron, “Don Juan”), Hyperbole - I've told you this 20,000 times., Imagery - Her lips tasted as sweet as sugar and yet his words felt like a dagger in her heart. , Interruption - “I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall—I will do such things, What they are, yet I know not…” King Lear, Shakespeare, Verbal Irony - Someone saying “Just what I needed”, after spilling coffee on their shirt on the way to an important meeting., Juxtaposition - "You will soon be asked to do great violence in the cause of good." The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers, Epistrophe - "For no government is better than the men who compose it, and I want the best, and we need the best, and we deserve the best." - John F. Kennedy, Litotes - “You are not as young as you used to be.”, Metaphor - My stomach was an unlimited black hole., Metonymy - "When he entered the Oval Office — by fate, not by design — Citizen Ford knew that he was not perfect, just as he knew he was not perfect when he left. But what president ever was?" Tom Brokaw, Oxymoron - bittersweet, Paradox - “All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.” Animal Farm, George Orwell, Parenthetical Remark - "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)” (Mark Twain), Parallel Structure - “Easy come, easy go.”, Personification - My alarm clock screamed me awake. , Quotations - According to Bob Smith’s article, “dolphins are the most intelligent sea mammals” (2)., Reference to Authority - "According to Mary Darling, Associate Professor of Nutrition at the University of Minnesota, . . . .", Rhetorical Question - 'If you prick us do we not bleed?, Sentence Fragment - Looking forward to seeing you., Simile - Her hair was like a tumbleweed, Synecdoche - She had a lot of "hungry mouths to feed",

Rhetorical Devices Practice (Examples)

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