Rhetorical Devices

Rhetorical devices are the tools used by authors and/or speakers to further their claim and be as persuasive as possible for a given audience.
Ad Hominem
Allegory
Alliteration
Allusion
Alter-Ego
Amplification
Anachronism 
Anadiplosis
Anaphora
Antecedent
Antithesis
Aphorism
Aporia
Apostrophe
Assonance
Begging the Question
Chiasmus
Circumlocution 
Comic Relief
Conceit
Concession
Connotation
Counterfactual
Cumulative (or Loose) Sentence
Deus ex machina
Epistrophe
Equivocation
Euphemism
False Dilemma
Foreshadow
Hyperbaton
Hyperbole
Hypophora
Interpellation
Irony
Isocolon
Jargon
Juxtaposition
Litote
Malapropism
Metanoia
Metaphor
Metonymy 
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Parable
Paraphrase
Parenthesis
Pathetic Fallacy
Personification (and here)
Pleonasm
Polysyndeton
Premise
Prolepsis
Red Herring
Reductio ad Hitlerum
Rhetorical Question
Romanticism
Sarcasm
Signposting
Slippery Slope
Syllogism
Symbol
Synecdoche
Synesthesia
Tautology
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