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

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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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• Ill give you a break
• but only a little one
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• http//www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm