Category:Rhetorical techniques

• Literary device

A

• Affect (rhetoric)
• Anangeon
• Ancient Indian rhetoric
• Antilabe
• Apologia
• Apophasis
• Appeal to advantage
• Argumentum ad captandum
• Aureation

B

• Balagha
• Bathos
• Bomphiologia
• Brevitas

C

• Captatio benevolentiae
• Clues in detective fiction
• Compliment sandwich
• Condensation (psychology)
• Constitutive rhetoric

D

• Description
• Diairesis
• Dissociation (rhetoric)
• Dissoi logoi

E

• Elevator pitch
• Emotive conjugation
• Encomium
• English understatement
• Epic catalogue
• Ethopoeia
• Evasion (ethics)

G

• Gish gallop
• Glossary of rhetorical terms
• Grand style (rhetoric)
• Greguería

H

• Historical present
• Hyperbaton
• Hyperbole
• Hypocorism
• Hypotaxis
• Hypozeuxis

I

• Illth
• Innuendo
• Irony

J

• Juxtaposition

K

• Kenning
• Kettle logic

L

• Literary consonance
• Livingstone Formulation
• Loaded language

M

• Metaphor and metonymy
• Mistakes were made
• Modes of persuasion

N

• Negative parallelism

O

• Oxymoron

P

• Parable
• Paradeigma
• Parallel syntax
• Parataxis
• Parisosis
• Philosophical razor
• Priamel
• Protrepsis and paraenesis

R

• Repetition (rhetorical device)
• Rhetorical question
• Rhetorical stance
• Rodomontade
• Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose

S

• Schesis onomaton
• Shermanesque statement
• Slippery slope
• Sotto voce
• Sound bite
• Sous rature
• Sphragis (literary device)
• Spin (propaganda)
• Spoiler effect rhetoric
• Synathroesmus

T

• Tautophrase
• Thula (poetic genre)
• The Treachery of Images

U

• Understatement

W

• Weasel word
• Wordplay