Modes of Rhetoric

1. Expository
   1. Classification
   2. Cause/Effect
   3. Comparison/Contrast
   4. Definition
   5. Analysis
2. Description
3. Narration
4. Persuasion/Argument

Genres

1. Allegory
2. Autobiography
3. Biography
4. Chronicle
5. Diary
6. Essay
7. Fiction/Non-fiction
8. Parody
9. Prose
10. Satire
11. Sermon
12. Stream of Consciousness

Figures of Speech

1. Analogy
2. Apostrophe
3. Cliché
4. Conceit
5. Epithet
6. Euphemism
7. Hyperbole
8. Imagery
9. Irony
   1. Verbal
   2. Situation
10. Metaphor
    1. Extended
11. Metonymy
12. Oxymoron
13. Paradox
14. Personification
15. Pun
16. Simile
17. Synaesthesia
18. Synecdoche
19. Understatement

Sound Devices

1. Alliteration
2. Onomatopoeia

Diction

1. Connotation vs. Denotation
2. Pedantic vs. Simple
3. Monosyllabic vs. Polysyllabic
4. Euphonious vs. Cacophonic
5. Literal vs. Figurative
6. Active vs. Passive
7. Overstated vs. Understated
8. Colloquial vs. Formal
9. Non-standard
   1. Slang
   2. Jargon

Other/Literature/Rhetorical Terms

1. Allusion
2. Ambiguity
3. Anachronism
4. Aphorism
5. Audience
6. Invective
7. Juxtaposition
8. Malapropism
9. Rhetorical Question
10. Sensory Detail
11. Shifts
12. Tone
13. Point of View
14. Style
15. Theme-Thesis
16. Voice 

Rhetorical Strategies:

Argument/Persuasion Terms

1. Persuasion
2. Argument
3. Appeals
   1. Emotion (Pathos)
   2. Ethical (Ethos)
   3. Rational (Logos)
4. Claim
5. Deductive Reasoning
   1. Syllogism
6. Inductive Reasoning
7. Evidence/Data
8. Pathos
9. Warrant
10. Logical Fallacies
    1. Ad Hominem Argument
    2. Begging the Question
    3. Doubtful Authority
    4. Either/Or Reasoning
    5. False Analogy
    6. Hasty Generalization
    7. Non-Sequitar
    8. Oversimplification

Syntax—Sentence Structure

1. Order
   1. Basic
   2. Interrupted
   3. Inverted
   4. Listing
   5. Cumulative/Loose
   6. Parallelism

                                                              i.      Balance

                                                            ii.      Antithesis

                                                          iii.      Chiasmus

7. Periodic

2. Sentence Types—Purpose
   1. Declarative
   2. Imperative
   3. Exclamatory
   4. Interrogative

3. Sentence Types—Structure
   1. Simple
   2. Compound
   3. Complex
   4. Compound-Complex

    D.  Omission

1. Ellipsis
2. Asyndeton

5. Addition/Repetition for Effect
   1. Anadiplosis
   2. Anaphora
   3. Epistrophe
   4. Punctuation

                                                              i.      Parenthetical Aside

                                                            ii.      Dashes

                                                          iii.      Colon

                                                          iv.      Semi-colon

5. Polysyndeton