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Rhetorical Devices - include techniques that help persuade the reader to agree with the view presented. It structures sentences for impact. Rhetorical Device Definition Example Example Antithesis Establishes a clear,...

Rhetorical Devices - include techniques that help persuade the reader to agree with the view presented. It structures sentences for impact. Rhetorical Device Definition Example Example Antithesis Establishes a clear, The cost of living rose; the contrasting relationship stock prices fell. between two ideas by joining them together, often in parallel structure. Parallelism Repeats specific words, When they won the lottery, phrases, or clauses in a the father jumped with series, giving emphasis to delight, the mother fainted key words and making them in shock, and the children memorable. danced in excitement. Climax Presents several facts in Finishing this course will order from least to most get you this credit, get important. you to grade 12 and get you out of high school. The news coverage first showed the deaths of the men, then of the women, and finally of the innocent children. Anti Climax A device of humour Sgt. Lt. Ron Smith III put which depends for its on his black cotton jacket effects upon the sudden and placed his shiny brass descent in a sentence from buttons in order. He the apparently serious to patted down his crisp the unexpected or wool pants, shined his ridiculous. black leather shoes, placed his authority hat  on his head, saluted himself in the mirror and drove off to his post as Walmart’s mall cop. Rhetorical Question Question not answered by Do you want to live in a the writer because the world where fresh water answer is already known is only a luxury? or implied. Also used as an attempt to draw in reader (MOP). Chiasmus When the word order in Examples: “Ask not what the second half of a your country can do for sentence is an inversion of you--ask what you can the word order in the first do for your country.” half. (John F. Kennedy) Should people live to work or work to live? Repetition The use of repeated words It was a hope for the and phrases for producing world, but that hope emphasis, clarity, rhythm quickly ended. or emotional effect. It was a strange night, a hushed night, a moonless night, and all you could was go to a movie. Other Types of Repetition: Definition: the deliberate Example: There was hope repeating of a key word or for the world, but it was a phrase within a single hope that was clearly sentence or successive threatened. sentences. Anaphora: In writing or speech, the “My life is my purpose. deliberate repetition of the My life is my goal. My first part of the sentence. life is my inspiration.”