. See structure. refers to forms of speech that are employed to highlight or make more attractive some aspect of a discourse. A rhetorical question, for example, is not a request for information but is usually a way of making an emphatic statement. For example, “Why did I do that?” really means “I should not have done that!” refers to similarity in the sounds of different words, as often found at the ends of lines of poetry. is the periodic pattern of accented syllables