RHETORIC SPEECH

When a person or author makes an indirect reference in speech, text, or song to an event or figure.

Talking to someone who is not there, dead, not human is a/an ... ?

The repetition of initial phrases at the beginning of a sentence is a/an ...?

A question asked to make a point, not that you want an answer is a/an ... ?

*Great Depression

*Cruel to be Kind

*Pain for pleasure

*Clearly confused

*Painfully beautiful

... are all examples of:

Using several words near that start with the same sound is a/an ... ?

A statement that seems impossible because the ideas are opposites, but have an element of truth is a/an ... ?

The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.

A statement that is not good enough to explain how good, bad, or impressive something really is, is a/an ...?

A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using like or as is a/an... ?

A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based is a/an ... ?