Honors Speech Devices

Contrasting relationship between two ideas

Emotional or motivational appeals

Draws attention to something you would want to emphasize

The author/ speaker raises a question and also gives an answer to the question.

Using a part instead of a whole or vice versa

The logic used to support a claim

The source’s credibility; the speaker’s author’s authority

A direct comparison using “like” or “as”

 A form of understatement which uses the denied opposite of a word to weaken or soften a message.

Happens when a researcher works from the more general information to the more specific.

 The initial consonant sound is usually repeated in two neighboring words.

Moves from specific observations to broader generalizations and theories.

 Attribution of human characteristics to animals, inanimate objects, or abstractions

Successive clauses or sentences are similarly structured

The pronunciation of a word imitates a sound.