Rhet. Strategies 1
Name the rhetorical device: "Shylock: I’ll have my bond! Speak not against my bond! I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond!"
Epistrophe: the repetition of the last word in a series of phrases or clauses
Name the rhetorical device: "Parting is such sweet sorrow."
oxymoron: the juxtaposition of opposite words that work together.
Anyone who attend this class without being on the roster, is a(n) _______.
a. interloper
b. sangfroid
a. interloper
a. vapid
b. erudite
a. vapid
Which of the following verbs would most precisely identify author’s purpose?
A. Uses
B. Shows
D. Mocks
D. Mocks
Name the rhetorical strategy: "Death, where is thy sting?"
Apostrophe: A “turning away,” the writer or the text “turns away” from the audience to address someone or something new
Name the rhetorical device: "He said that it was going to rain--I could hardly disagree--before the game was over."
Parenthesis
She handled a potentially embarrassing situation with cool _____.
a. aplomb
b. amnesty
a. aplomb
If you ____ pennies from the cash drawer, you will be tempted to steal larger amounts one day.
a. cajole
b. filch
b. filch
What are the 3 elements of the rhetorical situation?
1.Exigence/Occasion
2. Audience
3. Purpose
Name the rhetorical strategy: "I wouldn’t say that the journey was entirely uneventful."
Litote: Understatement used to intensify an idea; a positive statement in a negative form; stating what is by stating what is not.
Name the rhetorical strategy: "Our knowledge separates as well as unites; our orders disintegrate as well as bind; our art brings us together and sets us apart."
Antithesis: the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas
a. Autonomy
b. Commiserationb. Commiseration
a. assuage
b. intercede
a. assuage
Define exigence.
The author’s motivation for writing the piece—what’s happening in the world that motivated him / her.
Name the rhetorical device: "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."
Pun: A double meaning to a word; a play on the meaning of words.
Name the rhetorical strategy: "From nose to toes, the body is beginning to sag. No pain, no gain."
Assonance: Repetition of vowel sounds within successive words
The task of education is to ______ the primitive selfishness of the child into societally useful modes of behavior.
a. transgress
b. transmute
a. transmute
Rubber's remarkable _____ to resume its original shape makes it one of the world's most _____ materials.
a. propensity; resilient
b. aura; fractious
a. propensity; resilient
What are the main kinds of satire? How do they differ?
Horatian: meant to poke fun at society
Juvenalian: meant to be bitter and attack aspects of society
Name the rhetorical device: "Whoever sheds the blood of man by man will his blood be shed."
Chiasmus: first phrase or clause is reversed or inverted in the second phrase or clause; the meaning also reverses.
Name the TWO rhetorical devices: "She sang and sighed and sobbed and smiled beneath the stars."
Alliteration & polysyndeton (addition of conjunctions to slow the pace)
a. exacting; anomalous
b. reverberating; sepulchral
c. transmuting; bizarre
b. reverberating; sepulchral
She led such a(n) ____ life among her books and papers that her first outing in many years caused her to experience dismay at how ____ the neighborhood had become.
a. querulous; resilient
b. bizarre; heinous
c. insular; sleazy
c. insular; sleazy
On the first day of class, I showed a photo with my family. How many siblings do I have AND what are their genders?
1 brother & 1 sister