Definitions
Obvious and intentional exaggeration.
Hyperbole
Saying "Nice clean water you've got here" when you're standing next to polluted water.
Satire / Sarcasm
What is colloquial diction?
Colloquial diction is conversational in nature and can be seen through the use of informal words that represent a specific place or time.
What is the meaning of connotation?
An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
What are the four types of rhetorical devices?
Ethos, pathos, logos and Kairos
an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
Parody
"I'm so tired, I could sleep for a year."
Hyperbole
Identify the type of diction:
How can you tell what class I’m from?
I can talk posh like some
With an ‘Olly in me mouth
Down me nose, wear an ‘at not a scarf
With me second-hand clothes.
Colloquial diction - The use of the word “posh” in the second line means the speaker has been influenced, in some way, by British culture. The word would not appear in the common language of American or Canadian English-speaking youth.
What is the meaning of satire?
Making fun of something/someone with sarcasm or wit
Define each of the following:
•Ethos
•Pathos
•Logos
•Kairos
•Credibility and character
•Passions and emotions
•Reason
•Occasion or timing
the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices
Satire
I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.
Chiasmus
What is elevated diction?
Elevated diction defines the use of tone, style, and lexicon as formal, sophisticated, and academic: using terms like "pedagogy" instead of "teaching style"
What is the meaning of a parody?
Imitating an author/writer in a literary or musical work.
What type of rhetoric is at play:
A man at the car dealership implores the salesman to offer the best price on a new car because he needs to support his young family.
Pathos - Whenever someone tries to make you feel bad enough to do something, they're using pathos as a rhetorical tool. They can also use pathos to explain how happy they would feel if you helped them out, or how hard it will be for them if you don't.
a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form
Chiasmus
"I love to spend my time with my mother and father and brother and sister"
Polysyndeton
What type of diction is this:
'Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep…'
- John Keats, "Ode to Autumn"
Archaic diction - Romantic poets like John Keats clung to older traditions of language and literature. They did so in an effort to provide their own work with the same literary weight and credibility of authors like Shakespeare and Milton
What is the meaning of polysyndenton?
When conjunctions are repeated
What type of rhetoric is at play:
"The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence to the effect that the crime Tom Robinson is charged with ever took place. It has relied instead upon the testimony of two witnesses whose evidence has not only been called into serious question on cross-examination, but has been flatly contradicted by the defendant. The defendant is not guilty, but somebody in this courtroom is."
- "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Logos - The logos in this case lies in Atticus' emphasis on the facts of the case, or rather, the fact that there are no facts in the case against Tom. He temporarily ignores questions of racial justice and emotional trauma so that the jury can look clearly at the body of evidence available to them. In short, he appeals to the jury's reason.
The deliberate use of many conjunctions between phrases, clauses, or words.
Polysyndeton
The movie Pride and Prejudice with Zombies
Parody
What type of diction is this:
You know, I'm not going to beat around the bush; I am feeling under the weather. I better bite the bullet and tell the boss, hopefully he will cut me some slack and let me hit the sack. What do you say - should we call it a day? Speak of the devil, here he comes.
Idiomatic - an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements.
What is the meaning of chiasmus?
When words are repeated in a reverse order
What type of rhetoric is at play:
Video
Ethos - Laughing Man Coffee was co-founded by Hugh Jackman. His main idea was to give back to the coffee farming community by improving their lives.
The ad shows the brand’s credibility and highlights the farms of Colombia where most of Laughing Man Coffee is produced. The profits are invested back to provide aid to the farmers.