Rethorical Devices

• Parallelism

Is a recurrent syntactical similarity; It expresses similarity to show that the ideas in the sentence are equal in importance.

Ex.

She likes to cook, jog, and read.

• Parataxis

A successive independent clause with coordinating conjunctions, or no conjunctions.

Ex.

The Starfish went into the dry-dock, it got a barnacle, it went back to work.

• Parenthesis

A form of hyperbaton, and consist of a word, phrase, or whole sentence inserted as a aside in the middle of another sentence.

Ex.

My umbrella (which is somewhat broken) can still shield the two of us from the rain.

• Personification

It metaphorically represents an animal or inanimate objects as having human attributes—attributes of form, character, feelings, behavior, and so on. Ideas and abstractions can also be personified.

Ex.

The ship began to creak and protest as it struggled against the rising sea.

• Pleonasm

Uses more words than required to express an idea; it is mostly being redundant. Normally a vice, it is done on purpose on rare occasions for emphasis.

Ex.

That statement is wtong, incorrect, and not true at all in anyway, shape, or form.