Definitions
What is Synecdoche?
Identify any rhetorical device:
“She finished her homework and went to bed because she was tired.”
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Zeugma
A figure of explanation that occurs when a comparison is made by speaking of one thing in terms of another; an implied comparison between two different things that share at least one attribute in common.
Metaphor
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Which device is used here?
A. Hyperbole
B. Personification
C. Antimetabole
D. Metaphor
Justice is treated as something that can be threatened.
D
What is Personification?
It's a figure which represents abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities, including physical, emotional, and spiritual; the application of human attributes or abilities to non-human entities.
Identify any rhetorical device:
“The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain.”
Assonance
Give me a sentence with a metaphor
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What is the device:
A kind of extended metaphor or long simile in which an explicit comparison is made between two things for the purpose of furthering a line of reasoning or drawing an inference, a form of reasoning employing comparative or parallel cases.
Analogy
Which of the following BEST defines antithesis?
A. A reference to a historical or biblical event
B. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
C. The placement of contrasting ideas in parallel structure
D. An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally
C
What is Parallelism?
It's a figure of balance identified by a similarity in the syntactical structure of a set of words in successive phrases, clauses, sentences; successive words, phrases, clauses with the same or very similar grammatical structure.
Identify the rhetorical device:
“Silent silver streams slid softly under the shadowed sky.”
Alliteration
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What is this device:
A figure of emphasis that occurs through the repetition of initial consonant letters (or sounds) in two or more different words across successive sentences, clauses, or phrases.
Alliteration
Choose the sentence that contains anaphora:
A. “The tree danced as the wind howled.”
B. “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields.”
C. “Her smile was like sunshine breaking through the fog.”
D. “He is the lion of the courtroom.”
B
What is anaphora?
Figure of repetition that occurs when the first word or a set of words in one sentence, clause, or phrase is/are repeated at or very near the beginning of successive sentences, clauses, or phrases; repetition of the initial word(s) over successive phrases or clauses.
Identify the two rhetorical devices: “He stood at his crossroads like David before Goliath, torn between the path of humility and the road of pride.”
Biblical allusion: David and Goliath
Antithesis: “path of humility” vs. “road of pride”
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What is the device:
A figure of emphasis that occurs through the deliberate overuse of verbs in a sentence or passage to create a sense of relentless action or urgency, even at the expense of clarity or coherence.
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Allusion is best described as:
A. A brief reference to a well-known person, place, or text
B. The use of “like” or “as” to compare two unlike things
C. A device that gives human traits to non-human things
D. The Bible
A
What is zeugma
A zeugma is a rhetorical device in which a single word, often a. verb, governs two or more words, even though it may not grammatically or logically apply to both.
Identify the THREE devices:
“And he rose with hope, and he rose with courage, and he rose with a dawn that whispered promises and lifted his weary heart alike.”
Anaphora: “and he rose…”
Personification: “a dawn that whispered promises”
Zeugma: “lifted… promises and his weary heart” (the verb applies to two different objects in different ways)
Create a Poem using 3 rhetorical devices.
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What is the device:
A figure of balance in which two contrasting ideas are intentionally juxtaposed, usually through parallel structure; a contrasting of opposing ideas in adjacent phrases, clauses, or sentences.
Antithesis
“To the hungry, bread is heaven; to the drowning, water is hell.”
Which rhetorical device is MOST strongly at work?
A. Antithesis
B. Juxtaposition
C. Synecdoche
D. Paradox
B