Rhetorical Devices by Rachael Adams
  Scheme
– figures of speech having to do
with word order
  Trope – figures of speech with an
unexpected in the meaning of words
  The
repetition of a particular sound in the
first syllables of a series of words or
phrases.
  Scheme
  Examples:
*Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers.
*Susan sincerely sang the soft song.
The repetition of the
same consonant two
or more times in
short succession.
  Scheme
 
Examples:
*All mammals named
Sam are clammy.
*“Pitter Patter.”
 
  The
repetition of vowel sounds to create
internal rhyming within phrases or
sentences.
  Scheme
  Examples:
*The king was so bold, he caught a cold
from old mold.
*The baseball hat and the bat are near the
mat.
  These
rhetorical devices are usually used in
poems, songs, and raps done in the real
world today.
  Assonance- “For men so old as we to keep
the peace.” –Romeo & Juliet
  Alliteration- “His hand took hold of hers.” –
The Great Gatsby
  Consonance- “But the fact is I was napping,
and so gently you came rapping, and so
faintly you came tapping.” –Edgar Allan Poe