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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.). antithesis. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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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.)
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.
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.
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
hyperbaton
• An inversion of normal word order. For example placing the verb in front of the subject
Example of epistrophe
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny compared to what lies within us." —Emerson
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.
Example of symploce
• "Against yourself you are calling him, against the laws you are calling him,against the democratic constitution you are calling him"
synesthesia
• Blending, merging, comingling of senses
• Using a visual sense to describe a sound for example- or a smell for a color?
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.
anaphora
• Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or lines.
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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