auf DeutschStylistic Devices (Rhetorical Devices, Figures of Speech)
On the following pages, we will explain some of the most important stylistic devices (also called rhetorical devices or figures of speech) – they are not only useful for analysing texts, but also for creating your own texts.
Stylistic devices make your speeches, essays etc. more interesting and lively and help you to get and keep your reader’s / listener’s attention.
- Stylistic Devices
- Alliteration
- Allusion
- Anaphora
- Antithesis
- Hyperbole
- Hypophora
- Litotes
- Metaphor
- Metonymy
- Narration Technique see: Points of view
- Onomatopoeia
- Parallelism
- Parenthesis
- Personification
- Points of view
- Repetition
- Rhetorical Question
- Simile
- Synecdoche
- Understatement
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