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Title: Rhetorical Devices/ Figurative Language


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Rhetorical Devices/Figurative Language
  • this is really useful stuff

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Definitions
  • Rhetorical Devices - techniques used by a writer
    or speaker to heighten the effect of the writing
  • Figurative Language - speech or writing that
    departs from literal meaning in order to achieve
    a special effect or meaning, speech or writing
    employing figures of speech

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The basics
  • Diction word choice
  • Tone the attitude of the writer towards the
    subject
  • Mood the audiences feelings toward the work
  • Style the manner in which the author expresses
    his point through language
  • Point of view its the point of view (you know
    this already right?)

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Lets fast forward(figures of speech, basically)
  • Simile
  • Metaphor
  • Extended metaphor
  • Imagery
  • Symbol
  • Irony
  • Motif
  • Theme
  • Pun
  • Oh, you know those already? How about these

5
Heres some more stuff(rhetorical devices, as
such)
  • Allusion
  • Oxymoron
  • Paradox
  • Understatement
  • Hyperbole
  • Rhetorical question
  • simple, you say?

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Here, have fun!
  • Metonymy
  • Synecdoche
  • Antithesis
  • Anaphora
  • Asyndeton
  • Polysyndeton
  • Chiasmus
  • Litotes
  • Parenthesis

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Other things
  • Denotation
  • Connotation
  • And you really need to completely understand
  • Parallelism
  • seriously, ya gotta know that one

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  • Ok, ok, ok
  • Ill give you a break
  • but only a little one
  • check out this website
  • http//www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm
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