Rhetorical and Literary Devices

What is a self-contradictory statement that may be true?

What is an exaggerated statement?

What is a question that isn't supposed to be answered?

What is the repetition after intervening words?

What is the repetition of a word(s) at the end of a sentence and at the beginning of the next

What is a word that is spelled the way it sounds?

What is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses?

What is the omission of conjunctions?

What is a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?

What is giving living qualities to non-living things?

What is descriptive or figurative language?

What is using several conjunctions in close succession?

What is a comparison of two unlike things?

What is the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences?

What is a contrast between two things?

What is a thing that stands from something else?

It is an exclamatory passage in a poem or speech addressing a dead or absent person or object.