Rhetorical Devices

Rhetoric in types of writing like narrative writing and poetry often relies on linguistic tools like figurative language and well-known figures of speech.

Hyperbole

An extreme exaggeration meant to highlight the issue presented.

Epistrophe

Represents the repetition of a word through successive phrases, clauses, or sentences for the purpose of emphasizing it as a concept.

Meiosis

The reverse of hyperbole, meiosis emphasizes how far outside the norm an issue is, through extreme understatement.

Metaphor

Metaphor figuratively compares two topics by claiming that one literally is the other.