Rhetorical Devices 31-45
Rhetorical devices #31-45
For Mr. Green's AP English 11 1A class
For Mr. Green's AP English 11 1A class
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- personification
- metaphorically represents an animal or inanimate object as having human attributes--attributes of form, character, feelings, behavior, and so on; ideas and abstractions can also be personified
- hyperbaton
- includes several rhetorical devices involving departure from normal word order; delayed epithet: the adj. follows the noun
- allusion
- a short, informal reference to a famous person or event
- parenthesis
- a final form of hyperbaton, consists of a word, phrase, or whole sentence inserted as an aside in the middle of another sentence
- epithet
- an adj. or adj. phrase appropriately qualifying a subject (noun) by naming a key or important characteristic of the subject
- hyperbole
- the counterpart of understatement, deliberately exaggerates conditions for emphasis or effect
- antimetabole
- reversing the order of repeated words or phrases to intensify the final formulation, to present alternatives, or to show contrast
- eponym
- substitutes for a particular attribute the name of a famous person recognized for that attribute
- oxymoron
- a paradox reduced to two words, usually in an adj.-noun or adverb-adj. relationship, and is used for effect, complexity, emphasis, or wit
- onomatopoeia
- the use of words whose pronunciation imitates the sound of the word described
- diacope
- repetition of a word or phrase after an intervening word or phrase
- climax (gradatio)
- consists of arranging words, clauses, or sentences in the order of increasing importance, weight, or emphasis; parallelism usually forms a part of the arrangement, because it offers a sense of continuity, order, and movement-up the ladder of importance; but if you wish to vary the amount of discussion on each point, parallelism is not essential
- apostrophe
- interrupts the discussion or discourse and addresses directly a person or personified thing, either present or absent; its most common purpose in prose is to give vent to or display intense emotion, which can no longer be held back
- alliteration
- the recurrence of initial consonant sounds; the repetition can be juxtaposed (and then it is usually limited to two words)
- enthymeme
- an informally-stated syllogism which omits either one of the premises or the conclusion; the omitted part must be clearly understood by the reader