Rhetorical Devices
Repetition
the use of any element of language more than once within a passage of a text
Header
First and last name
Teacher name and period number
Class
Date
Deity
god or goddess
OR
Creator and supreme being
Unknown words
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Plot analysis?
What the text reveals
Parallelism
is the repetition of related ideas in the same grammatical structure.
Example - all the wording is in present tense “I think, therefore I am”
Book
italicized
Prophecy?
message claimed by a prophet that is supposed to be communicated to be by a deity (higher power)
Root Word
The origin of a word, the basic portion
Inference?
Reaching a conclusion based on facts and evidence
Antithesis
two strongly contrasting ideas, expressed using parallel structure; are places side by side
Website
quotations
Tiresias
prophet, blind, was transformed into a woman for years
Suffixes
A portion added to the end of a word that affects the meaning
Context Clues?
Hints or different meanings the author gives us in the text to help us
Anaphora
parallelism where a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of successive clauses for emphasis
True or False?
Period at end of citation?
True
Nostradamus
famous French astrologer and physician
Prefixes
Add on placed on the beginning of the word to adjust or qualify meaning
Character motivation
the reasoning behind why the characters acts the way they do
Anadiplosis
the repeating of the last word of a phrase or clause to start the consecutive phrase or clause
Order of date
Day Month Year
(20 May 2024)
Monotheistic: one god/ supreme being
Polytheistic: more then one god
Atheist: belief that there is no god or goddesses
Etymology
Study of words
Steal stand for?
S: Speech
T: Thought
E: Effect
A: Actions
L: Looks