DUE: Before start of October 1st ClassChoose three of the following terms:
Exemplum Metonymy Rhetorical Question Epistrophe Chiasmus Anaphora Amplification Ellipsis Enthymeme Litotes Antithesis Eponym Hypophora Zeugma Climax Conduplicatio Syllepsis Conduplicatio Parallelism Epithet Epanalepsis Isocolon Assonance Aporia Hyperbole Polysyndeton Catachresis Appositive Cacophony Euphemism
- Define each of your three rhetorical devices
- Create two-three examples of each
- Find a “literary” work (poem, essay, novella, film, graphic novel) that employs your three rhetorical devices. You might want to find three separate works, each employing ONE of the devices. Include the example and reference your source(s) (follow MLA style)
- Analyse the effectiveness of the devices.
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Rhetorical Devices
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1. Conduplicatio - Figure of repetition in which the key word or words in one phrase, clause, or sentence is/are repeated at or very near the beginning of successive sentences, clauses, or phrases; repetition of a key word over successive phrases or clauses.
Examples:
Walking through the forest I saw the autumn trees, the wind was blowing through the trees and the leaves on the trees were falling.
Sailing on the ocean I can feel the cool breeze of the ocean air.
Literary work:
"So I ask you tonight to return home, to say a prayer for the family of Martin Luther King -- yeah, it's true -- but more importantly to say a prayer for our own country, which all of us love -- a prayer for understanding and that compassion of which I spoke. We can do well in this country." (Robert F. Kennedy)
Analysis: Repetition enhances the contents of the message.
2. Epithet - is a descriptive word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing, which has become a fixed formula.
Examples:
Heartfelt thanks
Stone-cold heart
Literary work:
"Bravely bold Sir Robin rode forth from Camelot. He was not afraid to die, oh brave Sir Robin. He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways, brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin."
(Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Analysis: Epithet’s are effective because they provide a brief summary of major characters’ most essential qualities.
3. Hypophora – is a figure of speech where the speaker poses a question and then answers the question.
Examples:
What stings and loves honey? A bee
It is ridiculous that I carry on with this crazy idea. And, why do I ask you? Because it make no sense, that’s why.
Literary work:
"What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage!" (The Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz, 1939)
Analysis: Hypophora is effective because it gets the reader’s attention and stirs their curiosity.
Zeugma: A rhetoric device in which a word is used to describe two unrelated objects.
ReplyDeleteEx. the man had a strong appetite for smoked ham and his wife.
Ex. she wore a smile like she wore a dress.
Literature usage:
"Kill the boys and the luggage."(Shakespeare’s Henry V)
Analysis: The device draws attention to the phrase and can create personification.
Litotes: A form of meiosis which is an understatement or the opposite of exaggeration. Litotes is a negative statement that establishes an effect of meiosis.
Ex. The queen is slightly important, I suppose.
Ex. Helen Keller had mere accomplishments
Literature usage: “Go, I hate you not” (Pierre Corneille’s, Le Cid)
Analysis: is a useful way to establish a dim character or antagonist.
Polysyndeton: The use of repeated conjunctions to create an overwhelming feeling.
Ex. I have study for English and Calculus and Physics and Chemistry and Social tonight.
Ex. After the concert, we still need to buy a watermelon and go to the park and eat a string of spaghetti and wash our hands so we don’t get sick and then go to bed early!
Literature usage:
And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. (Genesis, 7:22-24)
Analysis: A great devise to help create an overwhelming feeling, especially useful during a persuasive speech.
1. Syllepsis - a figure of speech in which a word is applied to two others in different senses.
ReplyDeleteExamples: 1. I caught the train and a bad cold.
2. Neither the technicians nor the computers were working.
Literary work: " When I left the school I was for my age neither high nor low in it." (Charles Darwin- The life and letters of Charles Darwin)
2. Euphemism - A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
Examples: 1. Over the weekend I was let go from work. "Let go" is substituted for "fired"
2. The old man passed away last night. "passed away" is substituted for "died"
Literary work: "I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards man and all his ways." "Enmity is substituted for "hatred or opposition" ( George Orwell - Animal Farm)
3. Ellipsis - The omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues.
Examples: 1. 3,2,1 he shoots. . . he scores and the oilers win in the final seconds.
2. After speaking to her one the phone I still wasn't at ease. . . but hopefully she'll be okay.
Literary work: I stared at this girl on the street
she was wearing only . . . and . . .
The ellipsis poem (DOT DOT DOT)- by Dan Wilcox
Rhetorical Devices
ReplyDelete1. Antithesis – A figure of speech in which sharply contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in a balanced or parallel phrase or grammatical structure.
Examples:
- Life has many paths; all these paths have a purpose, even when some are found by accident.
- In life we are called upon, though few are chosen to answer that call.
Literary Work:
“My only love sprung from my only hate”
- (Romeo, Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 5)
Analysis: The contrast creates a balance between the two things being compared
2. Hyperbole – A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect
Examples:
- The weather didn’t quiet for days; the rain came down in buckets
- After a long day at work, he napped for a thousand hours
Literary Work:
"I have seen this river so wide it had only one bank."
- Mark Twain
Analysis: Draws the readers attention to the main subject being emphasis
3. Polysyndeton: s the use of several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted
Examples:
- At the store I need to buy, peaches and apples and oranges for fruit, and milk and cheese and yogurt for dairy.
- A girl in my class is very annoying and condescending and attention hungry and a know-it-all.
Literary Work:
"[The train] came boring out of the east like some ribald satellite of the coming sun howling and bellowing in the distance and the long light of the headlamp running though the tangled mesquite brakes and creating out of the night the endless fenceline down the dead straight right of way and sucking it back again wire and post mile on mile into the darkness after where the boilersmoke disbanded slowly along the faint new horizon and the sound came lagging and he stood still holding his hat in his hands in the passing groundshudder watching it till it was gone."
- Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
Analysis: Useful in persuasive writing because it creates an overpowering feeling about the subject
Rhetorical Devices
ReplyDelete1. Cacophony: harsh, discordant sounds
I dislike the cawing of a murder of crows.
The crashing of cymbals was continuous.
Literary Work
Jabberwocky
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
“And, hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe. (Carroll)
Analysis: Creates an uncomfortable feeling, forcing you to pay attention.
2. Chiasmus: reversal of the order of words in two parallel phrases
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
It’s not just the men in your life that counts; it’s the life in your man.
Literary Work
“Kilt, n. A costume sometimes worn by a Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.” (Bierce)
Analysis: Engages the listener with a sense of rythm.
3.Euphemism: Substitution of a vague or mild term or phrase.
He passed away.
I’m going to the rest room.
Literary Work
The Scarlatti Tilt
"It's very hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a man
who's learning to play the violin."
That's what she told the police when she handed them the empty revolver. (Brautigan)
Analysis: Makes you think.
Works Cited
Bierce, Ambrose. "The Devil's Dictionary." Bierce, Ambse. The Collected Writings Of Ambrose Bierce. London: Pan Books, 1946. 284.
Brautigan, Richard. Revenge Of The Lawn. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971.
Carroll, Lewis. Through The Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There. New York: Avenel Books, 1956.
Rhetorical Devices
ReplyDeleteChiasmus: a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases, as in “He went to the country, to the town went she.”
Examples of chiasmus:
"Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure" - Byron
"It's not the men in my life, it's the life in my men." - Mae West's
“One should eat to live not live to eat.”
Literary example:
"How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising
that past age which our fathers abused,
and as constantly abusing that present age,
which our children will praise."
Caleb Colton, Charles. Drmardy.com
http://www.drmardy.com/chiasmus/definition.shtml
Aporia: the expression of a simulated or real doubt, as about where to begin or what to do or say.
Examples of aporia:
‘Well, what can one say?’
‘I hardly know which of you is the worse.’
‘To be or not to be’
Literary example:
Where now? Who now? When now? Unquestioning. I, say I. Unbelieving. Questions, hypotheses, call them that. Keep going, going on, call that going, call that on. Can it be that one day, off it goes on, that one day I simply stayed in, in where, instead of going out, in the old way, out to spend day and night as far away as possible, it wasn't far. Perhaps that is how it began. You think you are simply resting, the better to act when the time comes, or for no reason, and you soon find yourself powerless ever to do anything again. No matter how it happened. It, say it, not knowing what. Perhaps I simply assented at last to an old thing. But I did nothing. I seem to speak, it is not I, about me, it is not about me. These few general remarks to begin with. What am I to do, what shall I do, what should I do, in my situation, how proceed? By aporia pure and simple? Or by affirmations and negations invalidated as uttered, or sooner or later? Generally speaking. There must be other shifts. Otherwise it would be quite hopeless. But it is quite hopeless. I should mention before going any further, any further on, that I say aporia without knowing what it means.
Beckett, Samuel. “The Unnamable”. About.com http://grammar.about.com/od/qaaboutrhetoric/f/QAaporia.htm
Assonance: Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close to each other - this also includes diphthongs. Like alliteration, it is the sound rather than the letter used that is important.
Examples of assonance:
"stir the nerves"
"letters from the dead"
"skeletons and petals"
Literary Example:
“Now if the harvest is over
And the world cold
Give me the bonus of laughter
As I lose hold.”
Betjeman, John. “A Nip in the Air”. The Poetry Archive. http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=1536e
Euphemism
ReplyDelete1. the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt.
2. the expression so substituted: “To pass away” is a euphemism for “to die.”
(Dictonary.com)
Examples: I was driving the porcelain truck.
I need to use the lou.
Garth Brooks says it best in his song Pushing Up Daisies. “Because he'd rather be pushing up daisies.” (Poemhunter.com)
Antithesis
–noun, plural
1. opposition; contrast: the antithesis of right and wrong.
2. the direct opposite (usually fol. by of or to): Her behavior was the very antithesis of cowardly.
(Dictonary.com)
Examples: The cacophony created by the construction sites his harmonious.
These cookies are bitter sweet.
You are pretty ugly.
My drink is as cold as hell.
The Hind and the Panther: Part I
by
John Dryden
“If, as our dreaming Platonists report,
There could be spirits of a middle sort,
Too black for heav'n, and yet too white for hell,
Who just dropp'd halfway down, nor lower fell;…”
(Antithesis)
Cacophony
“noun, plural -nies.
1. harsh discordance of sound; dissonance: a cacophony of hoots, cackles, and wails.
2. a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds: the cacophony produced by city traffic at midday.
3. Music. frequent use of discords of a harshness and relationship difficult to understand.”
(Dictonary.com)
Example: The cacophony created by construction sites in the middle of the day is exasperating.
The orchestra’s cacophony left me wishing I was six feet under. (Also a euphemism)
In Mortimer by Robert Munsch, Mortimer says "Clang, clang, rattle-bing-bang,” [I’m going to make my noise all day.]
Works Cited
Antithesis. 1 October 2009. http://www.types-of-poetry.org.uk/48-antithesis.htm.
Dictonary.com. 1 October 2009. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cacophony.
Dictonary.com. 1 October 2009. (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/antithesis).
Dictonary.com. 1 October 2009. (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/euphemism).
Munsch, Robert. The Official Robert Munsch. 1 Oct 2009. http://www.robertmunsch.com/books.cfm?bookid=37.
Poemhunter.com. 1 October 2009. (http://www.poemhunter.com/song/pushing-up-daisies/).
Rhetorical Devices: Crysta Hudyma
ReplyDeleteParallelism- Works to emphasize ideas in writing. Gracefully delivers words, phrases and clauses with rhythm and impact (Troyka and Hesse 505).
- eg. I called out his name. I called out deep into the night, and once again all I heard was silence.
- eg. I spun around the rink, twisting, turning. I spun around and around and then I stopped, and when I did a sudden dizziness evoked me.
- “But one hundred years later the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of a negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination” (King 1).
This device is effective in that it flows like poetry, it tugs at the heart strings and it uses descriptive words to paint a picture in the head.
Hyperbole- Exaggerating deliberately for emphasis (Troyka and Hesse 533).
-eg: I will hate you forever if you leave
-eg: My parents will kill me if they find out
-eg: I will love you to infinity and beyond
-“The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges” ( King 1).
This device is effective in that it allows the reader or listener to understand and pin point the importance of the words being said.
Euphemisms- Use ‘tactful’ words to underplay harsh realities of truth (Troyka and Hesse 541).
- eg: He went to live his own life instead of he’s never coming back
- eg: She has potential instead of she’s got a lot to learn
- “ We can never be satisfied as long as the negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality” (King 2).
This device is effective in that it can let the reader or listener come to their own conclusion on what is being said, without saying to much.
Works Cited
King Jr, Dr. Martin Luther. “ I Have a Dream”. American Rhetoric. Web. 29 September 2009.
Quitman Troyka, Lynn and Douglas Hesse. Handbook for Writers: Fifth Canadian Edition. Toronto.Pearson Canada, 2007. Print
1. Rhetorical Questions- A question that is asked but no answer is expected. Example- is it better to love or not to love at all?, Is the sky blue?
ReplyDeleteAnaphora- When a word or words are repeated at the being of a sentence, phrase, verse et. example- i'll love you today i'll love you tomorrow.
Climax- the highest most exciting point in a book, film, poem. The major turning point.
3. Rhetorical Question Example 1
Rhetorical Questions
"How do you think I feel
when you make me talk to you
and won't let me stop
till the words turn into a moan?
Do you think I mind
when you put your hand over my mouth
and tell me not to move
so you can "hear" it happening?
And how do you think I like it
when you tell me what to do
and your mouth opens
and you look straight through me?
Do you think I mind
when the blank expression comes
and you set off alone
down the hall of collapsing columns? " Hugo Willims
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/rhetorical-questions/
Climax- Example 2 Film " The lord of the rings"
Anaphora Example 3 10 things I hate about you poem
I hate the way you talk to me,
and the way you cut your hair.
I hate the way you drive my car,
I hate it when you stare.
I hate your big dumb combat boots
and the way you read my mind.
I hate you so much it makes me sick,
it even makes me rhyme.
I hate the way you�re always right,
I hate it when you lie.
I hate it when you make me laugh,
even worse when you make me cry.
I hate it when you�re not around,
and the fact that you didn�t call.
But mostly I hate the way I don�t hate you,
not even close�
not even a little bit�
not even at all.
http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/0-9/10thingsihateaboutyou4485/10thingsihateaboutyoupoem205395.html
Michelle Hempstock
ReplyDeleteAntithesis – the contrast and/or opposite of ideas. This is an effective device because it helps clarify ideas with one which is opposite.
Ex. 1 – When one door closes, another door opens.
Ex. 2 – It’s the best of time but it was the best either.
Source
“I could get a root canal in Hell, but it wouldn’t be as swell as this summer is gonna be.”
“A Summer in Ohio”, The Last Five Years
Hyperbole – an exaggerated figure of speech. This device is effective because it helps the reader understand or emphasize with the true feeling or emotion.
Ex. 1 – My backpack was as heavy as an elephant.
Ex. 2 – She was so upset that she cried a river.
Source
“The earth will wave with corn; the days so wide, so warm.”
“The Song of Purple Summer”, Spring Awakening
Euphemism – substituting an offensive expression with a mild and/or pleasant expression. The effectiveness of this device is to make it more appealing and enjoyable for the audience.
Ex. 1 – My grandmother has gone to a happier place. (Died)
Ex. 2 – Unfortunately, we have to let you go. (Fired)
Source
“When I see depressing creatures with unprepossessing features, I remind them on their own behalf to think of celebrated heads of state…”
“Popular”, Wicked
I FORGOT MY WORKS CITED! Here they are below:
ReplyDeleteWorks Cited
Recording, Original Cast. "A Summer in Ohio." The Last Five Years. By Jason Robert Brown. New York City: Sh-K-Boom Records, 2002.
Recording, Original Cast. "Popular." Wicked. cond. Stephen Oremus. By Stephen Schwarts. New York City: Universal Music, 2003.
Recording, Original Cast. "The Song of Purple Summer." Spring Awakening. By Duncan Sheik & Steven Sater. New York City: Decca Broadway, 2006.
Michelle Hempstock
Rhetorical Devices
ReplyDeleteI selected three relatively easy devices:
Exemplum - A story used to illustrate a moral point, like a parable, or sermon. (Eidenmuller par. 1)
Euphemism -substitution of an agreeable or at least non-offensive expression for one whose plainer meaning might be harsh or unpleasant. (Merriam-Webster Online)
Hyperbole - exaggeration for emphasis or for rhetorical effect. (Scaife)
I also wrote the following paragraph to illustrate the combined effectiveness of all three, notice all three instances each of euphemism, and hyperbole wrapped within the exemplum.
[Do you remember what happened to John & Marsha? Compromise killed that marriage; Marsha killed John out of plain jealousy. She was sick and tired of his “indiscretions”. She couldn’t help but think of all of the endless nights she spent waiting up for him. How many times did she blame herself for not being able to “keep the home fires burning”? She found little solace in her two newest past times “drinking away the pain” and beating herself up in-between stupors? John on the other hand felt not one iota of guilt for the thousands of affairs that he had while Marsha was happily married to her ignorance. He felt entitled for her because all those years ago when he gave up his scholarship, did the right thing and stood by her side. Marsha was no stranger to sacrifice herself; she gave up her identity and her ambitions for the coveted “Mrs. “degree, like her mother and grandmother before her. It just goes to show you that some that while certain compromises can be reached, not all are supposed to be made.]
Exemplum:
“Tell me what you think of this story: A man had sons. . .” (Peterson 55)
Euphemism:
Tom Wolfe captures the euphemism perfectly in his book “The Right Stuff” exemplified in the following passage. “When the final news came, there would be a ring at the front door -- a wife in this situation finds herself staring at the front door as if she no longer owns it or controls it--and outside the door would be a man... come to inform her that unfortunately something has happened out there, and her husband's body now lies incinerated in the swamps or the pines or the palmetto grass, "burned beyond recognition," which anyone who had been around an air base very long (fortunately Jane had not) realized was quite an artful euphemism to describe a human body that now looked like an enormous fowl that has burned up in a stove, burned a blackish brown all over, greasy and blistered, fried, in a word, with not only the entire face and all the hair and the ears burned off, not to mention all the clothing, but also the hands and feet, with what remains of the arms and legs bent at the knees and elbows and burned into absolutely rigid angles, burned a greasy blackish brown like the bursting body itself, so that this husband, father, officer, gentleman, this ornamentum of some mother's eye, His Majesty the Baby of just twenty-odd years back, has been reduced to a charred hulk with wings and shanks sticking out of it.” (Scaife)
Hyperbole:
The song “miUZI weighs a ton” (My UZI weighs a Ton) from the 1987debut album by Rap group Public Enemy is full of hyperbole, including but not exclusive to the title. (Public Enemy)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRtrL7Nf1xc
Works Cited
Eidenmuller, Micheal E. ""Exemplum"." 1 July 2009. American Rhetoric. 29 September 2009 http://www.americanrhetoric.com/figures/exemplum.htm.
Merriam-Webster Online. ""Euphemism"." 2009. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 29 September 2009 http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/euphemism.
Peterson, Eugene H. The Message Remix: The Bible In Contemporary Language. Colorado Springs: Alive Communications Inc., 2003.
Public Enemy. "MiUzi weighs a ton." Yo! Bumrush the show. New York, 1987.
Scaife, Ross. A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples. 22 December 2004. 29 September 2009 http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/rhetoric.html.
Wolfe, Tom. The Right Stuff. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979.
Rhetorical Devices- Amanda Van Oort
ReplyDeleteAnaphora is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of multiple successive clauses.
Example 1- If the sun never sank we’d have summer forever. If the sun never sank we could dance through the night. If the sun never sank, autumn would never come
Example 2- When we were young, life was easy. When we were young, life was innocent, when we were young, we weren’t so old.
Literary example- Chorus of “Where Does the Good Go” (Tegna and Sara)
“look me in the eye and tell me you dont find me attractive
look me in the heart and tell me you wont go
look me in the eye and promise no love is like our love
look me in the heart and unbreak broken it wont happen”
Analysis- I find the use of anaphora here to add a strong sense of pathos to the heart of what is being sung in this song. It creates a certain tone or tension in the song and is very effective.
Litotes is an ironic form of rhetoric where a negative word is used to affirm the positive.
Example 1- “I am not unaware of his plans” (I am aware…)
Example 2- “I don’t doubt your character” (I am sure…)
Literary Example from Ang Lees’s 2005 rendition of Jane Austens “Pride and Prejudice” (Knightly, Keira and Matthew MacFadyen)
(Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy)
Elizabeth Bennet: Do you think anything might tempt me to accept the hand of the man who has ruined, perhaps for ever, the happiness of a most beloved sister? Do you deny that you separated a young couple who loved each other, exposing your friend to censure of the world for caprice and my sister to derision for disappointed hopes, involving them both in misery of the acutest kind?
Mr. Darcy: I do not deny it. (I confirm it.)
Elizabeth Bennet: How could you do it?
Analysis- In the context of the era these words were being spoken, I find the use of litotes by Mr. Darcy to be very appropriate. It seems to me that litotes was used quite prevalent in the ‘old English’ way of speaking and its use here fits very well with the briskness of the character of Mr.Darcy.
Conduplicatio is the repetition of a certain word or words in a sentence or paragraph.
Example 1- Now is the time for change. Now is not the time to wait. We have no time but the present.
Example 2- Love brings hope and in love we find our redemption. All we need is to love and be loved.
Literary Example:
John 14:27 (NIV) “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” (The Holy Bible: New International Version)
Analysis: It appears that the very use of conduplicatio in any sentence or paragraph is effective and that the existence of it is just that- to add effectiveness and emphasize. In this passage, Jesus is emphasizing peace to his disciples at the last supper. The disciples have spent the last couple years physically with Jesus and don’t understand yet what is about to happen to him (this is the night where he is betrayed and and arrested, leading to the crucifixion). As a leader who loves his followers and doesn’t want them to be troubled and knows whats coming, emphasizing peace would be important, although im not sure it was initially effective when the soldiers came to arrest Jesus…the disciples kind of freaked.
Works Cited
Pride and Prejudice. Dir. Ang Lee. Knightly, Keira and Matthew MacFadyen. 2005.
Tegna and Sara. "Where Does The Good Go." So Jealous. By Tegan and Sara. 2004.
The Holy Bible: New International Version. Grande Rapids: Zondervan, 2008.
Rhetorical Devices
ReplyDeleteMetonymy is a type of metaphor, where its metaphorical image is closely associated with the thing that it is being compared to, but not actually part of the thing it is being compared to.
Examples:
1. Money banks over there, still has not paid.
2. If we believe we can, city hall can’t stop us.
3. I have to love him, we share the same blood.
Literary example:
Billy Walsh: "Don’t let the suit influence you"(The Scene, Entourage)
Analyse:
Metonymy is effective because it helps to define an idea by connecting the image to its original subject.
Epistrophe is the repetition of the same word(s) that ends the phrases, clauses, or sentence.
Examples:
1. One must breathe success, envision success, and believe in success to achieve success.
2. When the cats misbehave you must squirt them with water because they do not like water.
Literary example:
“And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.”(King)
Analyse: It is effective because not only does it repeat the word it also emphasis it by saying it at the end of the phrases, clauses, or sentence.
Polysyndeton: is when a conjunction is used between each word, phrase, or clause.
Examples:
1. No matter what he did to block out the noise of the construction, the clanging still continued, and the banging was nonstop, and the smashing sounds couldn’t be controlled.
2. When in Australia one can surf and snowboard and skydive all in one day.
3. There are many ways to spend a day one can learn or work or play depending on what they like to do.
Literary example:
“With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.”(King)
Analyse: It is effective because it stands out, intensifying the effect of multiplicity, alternatives, or qualifications.
Works Cited
King, Dr. Martin Luther. "I Have a Dream." Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. 28 Aug. 1963.
“The Scene.” Entourage. David Frankel and Rob Weiss. HBO, New York, NY. 4 Aug. 2004.
Syllepsis - A figure of speech in which one word simultaneously modifies two or more other words.
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Literary Work: “She lowered her standards by raising her glass,
Her courage, her eyes and his hopes.” (Flanders and Swann - Madeira M'Dear)
Euphemism - An inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh.
Examples: Batting For The Other Side. Bought The Farm
Literary Work: “life is first boredom, and then fear;
whether or not you use it, it goes,
and leaves what something hidden from you chose,
and age, and then the only end of age.” (Dockery and Son - Philip Larkin)
Anaphora - Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.
Examples: I want her to live. I want her to breathe. I'm not afraid to die. I'm not afraid to live.
Literary Work: “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!” (I Have a Dream – Martin Luther King Jr.)
Alliteration:
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Example 1: the best baking begins by beating butter and sugar in a bowl
Example 2: taking part in planting pansies and petunias requires patients.
Assonance:
The repetition of the same sound, in words close to each other.
Example 1: Smoke plumed out of the pipe forming blooms of white in the gloomy air
Example 2: the romance of dance
Cacophony:
The harsh joining of sounds.
Example 1: the dog was gangly but gruesome, gnawing the foul carcass with ferocious carnivorous force.
Example 2: their crass cackles compromised the composure of the opposition.
Literary Examples:
Alliteration
*Let us go forth to lead the land we love.
J. F. Kennedy, Inaugural
Assonance
*Thy kingdom come, thy will be done.
The Our Father
Cacophony
*We want no parlay with you and your grisly gang who work your wicked will.
W. Churchill
Reference:
Scaife, Ross. “A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples.” Department of Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures, & Cultures. 2004. University of Kentucky. 22 Dec 2004 http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/rhetoric.html#top
Title: Adopting the Principles of the Berlin Declaration
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Specific purpose: To inform, and convince humanity to help stop anti-Semitism.
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