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Advanced Rhetorical Devices
Rhetoric is the art of using language effectively and persuasively.
We all use rhetoric on a daily basis.(We just may not call it a fancy name------yet.)
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antithesis
A figure of speech which refers to the juxtaposition of opposing or contrasting ideas. Brings out of a contrast in
ideas by an obvious contrast in the words, clauses, or sentences, within a parallel grammatical structure.
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example of antithesis
• It can't be wrong if it feels so right"
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aporia
• Deliberating with oneself as though in doubt over some matter; asking oneself (or rhetorically asking one's hearers) what is the best or appropriate way to approach something.
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Where shall I begin to describe her wisdom? In her knowledge of facts? In her
ability to synthesize diverse matters? In her capacity to articulate complex ideas
simply?
• Example of aporia
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hyperbaton
• An inversion of normal word order. For example placing the verb in front of the subject
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Example of aporia
• Why should their liberty than ours be more?
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epistrophe
• Ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences with the same word or words.
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Example of epistrophe
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny compared to what lies within us." —Emerson
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symploce
• The combination of anaphora and epistrophe: beginning a series of lines, clauses, or sentences with the same word or phrase while simultaneously repeating a different word or phrase at the end of each element in this series.
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Example of symploce
• "Against yourself you are calling him, against the laws you are calling him,against the democratic constitution you are calling him"
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Chiasmus
• Repetition of ideas or grammatical structures in inverted order
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Example of chiasmus
• It is boring to eat; to sleep is fulfilling
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synesthesia
• Blending, merging, comingling of senses
• Using a visual sense to describe a sound for example- or a smell for a color?
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Example of synesthesia
• The wallpaper had a yellow smell-
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synecdoche
• A type of metaphor- A whole is represented by naming one of its parts or vice versa
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Example of synecdoche
• Listen, you've got to come take a look at my new set of wheels.
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metonymy
• A type of metaphor in which the whole is represented by something or someone related to it or by naming one of its attributes.
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Example of metonymy
• The pen is mightier than the sword
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anaphora
• Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or lines.
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Example of anaphora
• This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise,
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Periodic sentence
• Sentence in which the meaning or sense is suspended until the end
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Example of periodic sentence
• Of man's first disobedience and the fruitOf that forbidden tree, whose mortal tasteBrought death into the world, and all our woe,With loss of Eden, till one greater ManRestore us, and regain the blissful seat,Sing Heav'nly Muse...
Milton