Rhetorical Device Glossary PDF

Rhetorical Device Glossary - due Friday 10/18, in handwriting only Use the following websites to add TWO OR MORE additional examples under each term. Underline phrases that best exemplifies the device – the goal is to learn devices as you record examples ThoughtCo -- google thoughtco + name...

Rhetorical Device Glossary - due Friday 10/18, in handwriting only Use the following websites to add TWO OR MORE additional examples under each term. Underline phrases that best exemplifies the device – the goal is to learn devices as you record examples ThoughtCo -- google thoughtco + name of term as a shortcut University of Kentucky Glossary of Rhetorical Devices https://mcl.as.uky.edu/glossary-rhetorical-terms#1 Silva Rhetoricae -- http://rhetoric.byu.edu/ look for “search the forest” at the bottom of the middle panel Oxford Academic – https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/38590/chapter/334645335 Alliteration repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close to one another: Mickey Mouse; Donald Duck; Daffy Duck; Suzy Sells Seashells … Allusion a reference to a well-known person, place, or thing from literature, history, etc. Eden, Scrooge, Prodigal Son, Catch-22, Judas, Don Quixote, Mother Theresa Anaphora Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. This is a deliberate form of repetition and helps make the writer’s point more coherent. “We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender. “ Churchill. “So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado….” Martin Luther King, Jr. Anadiplosis the repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause “Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” —Yoda, Star Wars “Tonight, we are a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom. Our grief has turned to anger, and anger to resolution.”—George Bush, 2001 Antithesis the presentation of two contrasting images. The ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs. “The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” Lincoln Apostrophe A figure of speech in which some absent or nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding. Examples: “Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race” (James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) “Twinkle, twinkle, little star…how I wonder what you are” Asyndeton Commas used (with no conjunction) to separate a series of words. The parts are emphasized equally when the conjunction is omitted; in addition, the use of commas with no intervening conjunction speeds up the flow of the sentence. Asyndeton takes the form of X, Y, Z as opposed to X, Y, and Z. “We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardships, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” John F. Kennedy (no conjunction between the last item in a series) “... and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth." Abraham Lincoln Chiasmus repetition of ideas in inverted order “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country….” Kennedy Hortative Sentence A Sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action. Inversion reversing the customary (subject first, then verb, then complement) order of elements in a sentence or phrase; it is used effectively in many cases, such as posing a question: “Are you going to the store?” Usually, the element that appears first is emphasized more than the subject. Juxtaposition The placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences. Litotes a figure, specifically a trope, in which the writer deliberately understates a point Metaphor a figure of speech in which one thing is referred to as another; “my love is a fragile flower” Metonymy a figure of speech that uses the name of an object, person, or idea to represent something with which it is associated, such as using “the crown” to refer to a monarch ; Also, “The pen is mightier than the sword.” Oxymoron paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another Parallelism the technique of arranging words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures by placing them side by side and making them similar in form. Parallel structure may be as simple as listing two or three modifiers in a row to describe the same noun or verb; it may take the form of two or more of the same type of phrases (prepositional, participial, gerund, appositive) that modify the same noun or verb; it may also take the form of two or more subordinate clauses that modify the same noun or verb. Or, parallel structure may be a complex bend of single-word, phrase, and clause parallelism all in the same sentence. "Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature." (Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker) "The loss we felt was not the loss of ham but the loss of pig." (E. B. White) "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal." (T.S. Eliot) Personification the attribution of human qualities to a nonhuman or an inanimate object Polysyndeton a rhetorical term for a sentence style that employs many coordinating conjunctions (most commonly, and). Adjective: polysyndetic. Also known as redundance of copulatives. The opposite of polysyndeton is asyndeton. “I’m going to lead my people up to the radio tower and I’m going to make a call, and I’m going to get them all rescued, every one of them. And then I’m going to come find you, and I’m going to kill you.” (Jack Shephard in “Through the Looking Glass.” Lost, 2007) Rhetorical Question one that does not expect an explicit answer. It is used to pose an idea to be considered by the speaker or audience. Synecdoche a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent a whole, such as using “boards” to mean a stage or “wheels” to mean a car – or “All hands on deck.” Zeugma Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings. Examples: "He carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men." (Tim O'Brien) "He was alternately cudgelling (bludgeoning) his brains and his donkey." (Charles Dickens)