In rhetoric, a rhetorical device, persuasive device, or stylistic device is a technique that an author or speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with the goal of persuading them towards considering a topic from a perspective, using language designed to encourage or provoke an emotional display of a given perspective or action.

Sonic devices
- Alliteration
- Assonance
- Consonance
- Cacophony
- Onomatopoeia
Word repetition
- Anadiplosis/Conduplicatio
- Anaphora/Epistrophe/Symploce/Epanalepsis
- Epizeuxis/Antanaclasis
- Diacope
Word relation
- Antithesis/Antimetabole/Chiasmus
- Asyndeton/Polysyndeton
- Auxesis/Catacosmesis
- Oxymoron
- Zeugma
Discourse level
- Amplification/Pleonasm
- Antanagoge
- Apophasis
- Aporia
- Diasyrmus
- Derision
- Enthymeme
- Hyperbole
- Hypophora
- Innuendo
- Metanoia
- Procatalepsis
- Understatement
Irony and imagery
- Irony
- Metaphor
- Personification
- Simile
- Metonymy
  - Synecdoche

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