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RHETORICAL DEVICES
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Words which are inaccurate if interpreted literally, but are used to describe. Similes and metaphors are common forms.
What is figurative language?
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John went to the store. He then went to school. John is the ______________________________ of he.

What is antecedent?

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 A short, personal story used to illustrate a point 

What is an Anecdote

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This rhetorical device is a subtype of parallelism. It is defined as the exact repition of words at the beginning of phrases. ex:The I have a dream speech.
What is anaphora.
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The discrepancy between appearance and reality: verbal, situational, dramatic.

What is irony

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This rhetorical device involves two unlike things being compared using like or as. ex: Her hair was as red as fire.
What is a simile.
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A combination of contradictory words

What is an Oxymoron

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This flexible term describes the variety, the conventions, and the purposes of the major kinds of writing
What is modes of discourse/rhetorical modes
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This rhetorical device involves an expression that has unusual meaning. ex: To kick the bucket, to break a leg...
What is an idiom.
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This rhetorical device involves the deliberate exaggeration of a situation. ex: He ate everything in the house.
What is hyperbole.
300
The three main types of appeals (The Greek Please)
What is Ehtos, Pathos, Logos
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a question asked for an effect, and not actually requiring an answer.
What is a rhetorical question?
300

Giving human qualities to an inhuman object

what is personification

300

A comparison to a directly parallel case; the process of drawing a comparison between two things based on a partial similarity of like features.

What is an Analogy 

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This rhetorical device involves a direct or indirect reference to somthing which is commonly known. ex:'Christy didn't like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything except the bare necessities'..
What is an Allusion.
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deliberately suggesting two or more different, and sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work. An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way- - this is done on purpose by the author, when it is not done on purpose, it is vagueness, and detracts from the work.

What is ambiguity?

400

Two contrasting elements together that are so unlike that the effect is surprising, witty, or even startling

What is juxtaposition 

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A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule.
What is satire?
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exaggerated imitation of a serious work or subject

What is parody

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when the arrangement of parts of a sentence is similarly phrased or constructed

What is Parallelism 

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This rhetorical device that is a mild, polite, or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered too harsh, blunt, unpleasant, or taboo. 

What is Euphemism 

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This is used to influence an audience, enhance the tone of a piece, and structure arguments effectively. 

What is rhetorical devices

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This term establishes credibility, authority, and character. 

Ethos

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an example of this device is... "Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune--without the words, And never stops at all,

What is an extended metaphor.

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This device refers to the way an author chooses to join word into phrases and sentences.
What is syntax.