HyperboleExaggeration MetonymySynecdoche Anaphora Epistrophe ColloquialismJargon CounterargumentConcession JuxtapositionAntithesis Chiasmus Antimetabole Alliteration consonance assonance ID: 188651
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Rhetorical Device ReviewSlide2
Hyperbole/Exaggeration
Metonymy/Synecdoche
Anaphora/
Epistrophe
Colloquialism/Jargon
Counterargument/Concession
Juxtaposition/Antithesis
Chiasmus/
Antimetabole
Alliteration, consonance, assonance
Aphorism/Epigram
Connotation/Denotation
Allusion/ Reference
Imperative sentence/Declarative sentence
Parallelism/parallel structure
Parody/satire
Oxymoron/paradoxSlide3
HyperboleSlide4
Hyperbole: exaggeration for a purpose
“
I am so hungry I could eat three cows
.”
“
I used to have to walk to school in the snow. Barefoot. Uphill… both ways
.”
“
If Ms. Levine makes me stand up in front of the class and sing that song one more time
I’m
going to die!”Slide5
Metonymy / SynecdocheSlide6
Metonymy:
when a thing/concept is called not by its name but by the name of something associated with it
“The
O
val Office today release a statement about the death of Nelson Mandela.”
(Oval Office = President/Presidential business)
“The pen is mightier than the sword.”
(pen = articulate ideas / sword = physical violence)Slide7
Synecdoche:
when a part of something represents the whole, or the word when you mean only a part of it
“Let the hands go to dinner.” (hands=workers)
“San Francisco recently beat Seattle.”
(SF = 49ers / Seattle = Seahawks)
“Let’s take your wheels. Mine are parked far away.” (wheels = car)Slide8
Anaphora Slide9
Anaphora:
repetition of words or phrases at the start of a sentence
Now
is the time to
make real the promises of
democracy.
Now
is the time to
rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path
of
racial
justice.
Now
is the time to
lift our nation from the
quick sands
of racial injustice to the solid rock of
brotherhood.
Now
is the time to
make justice a reality for all of God’s children
.
MLK Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail”Slide10
Epistrophe Slide11
Epistrophe
:
repetition of words or phrases at the end of consecutive sentences or clauses
“… that government of
the people
, by
the people
, for
the people
, shall not perish from the earth.“
(
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
)
"A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship,
but it is not this day
. An hour of woes and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down!
But it is not this day!
This day we fight!“
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the KingSlide12
Colloquialism / Jargon Slide13
Colloquialism
: a word or phrase that is not formal but rather used in every day conversation
“You
gonna
hit up 7-11 before going home?”
“At the end of the year the accounting department showed that their investment was a wash.“
“You don’t have the guts to taste that weird looking food.”Slide14
Jargon:
technical language specific to a particular field and hard for others to understand
Examples of Police Jargon
Suspect - A person whom the police think may have committed a crime
10-4 - Radio jargon meaning Okay or I understand
Code Eight - Term that means officer needs help immediately
Code Eleven - A code that means the individual is at the scene of the crime
FTP - The failure of an individual to pay a fine
Assumed room temperature: An individual has diedSlide15
Counterargument / ConcessionSlide16
Counterargument:
an argument opposing someone’s main argument
Concession:
acknowledging the validity of parts of the opposing argument
Argument:
School should start at 10am so that students can have sufficient sleep and be better prepared for their day.
Counterargument:
If school started at 10am there would not be enough time for sports in the afternoon.
Concession:
I agree that sleep is important for students, and that students need more sleep than they are getting. Slide17
JuxtapositionSlide18
Juxtaposition
: placing contrasting ideas, phrases, images next to each other for emphasis
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way…”
Charles Dickens,
A Tale of Two Cities
By juxtaposing the more violent actions of Elijah Muhammad’s Muslim movement with his followers’ own non-violent actions in “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, MLK Jr. makes his own methodologies appear more appealing.Slide19
AntithesisSlide20
Antithesis:
a person or thing that is the opposite of someone or something else
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
Martin Luther King, Jr., speech at St. Louis, 1964
"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."
Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
~
Goethe Slide21
Chiasmus /
AntimetaboleSlide22
Chiasmus /
Antimetabole
Both of these have to do with the reversal of the structure of a sentence. (ABBA)
Antimetabole
:
(use of same words but inverted)
"
Eat
to
live
, not
live
to
eat
.“
A B
B
A
Chiasmus:
(use of different but similar words inverted)
“
He
knowingly
led
and we
followed
blindly
”
A B B ASlide23
Alliteration / Consonance / AssonanceSlide24
Alliteration:
repetition of sounds at the
start
of the sentence
Consonance:
repetition on consonant sounds in the beginning, middle or end of words
Assonance:
repetition of vowel sounds in beginning, middle or end of words
Alliteration:
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
.
Consonance:
Let the boy try along this bayonet blade
How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood;
Blue with all malice, like a madman's flash;
And thinly drawn with famishing for flesh.“
Assonance:
One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fishSlide25
Aphorism / EpigramSlide26
Aphorism:
a short and concise (sometimes witty) statement of general truth or moral principal about
the world or life (aim is to reflect on truth)
Epigram:
a short, concise, witty statement
(aim is to humor)
Aphorism:
“Truth is a funny thing; you never really know if you
can
trust someone, until you find out you can’t.”
Epigram: “I
don’t approve of political jokes; I have seen too many get
elected.”Slide27
Connotation / DenotationSlide28
Connotation
: the ideas, images, feelings evoked by a particular word
Denotation:
the dictionary definition of a word
Snake
Denotation: elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles
Connotation: slimy, conniving, devious personSlide29
Allusion / ReferenceSlide30
Allusion:
referring
covertly
or
indirectly
to a text, an object or a circumstance that has occurred or existed in an external context.
It is left to the reader or hearer to make the connection.
Insulting my family is my
Achille’s
heel.
When MLK Jr. begins his “I Have a Dream” speech with “Five score years ago” he is making an allusion to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address speech to highlight the equally historic significance of the momentSlide31
Reference:
directly referencing another text, object, or a circumstance
Just as Achilles’s weakness was his heel, my weakness is my family. I would do anything for them.
If MLK Jr. had said “Just as Lincoln counted the years since the founding of this great country, so will I, noting that while we have come far since his great proclamation we still have far to go.”Slide32
Imperative / Declarative SentencesSlide33
Imperative:
a command (usually begins with a verb”
Declarative:
a statement
Imperative:
Get me some water.
Bring me that paper.
Don’t forget to study.
Declarative:
I need to study. I am thirst.
I want to get that paper.Slide34
Parallel Sentence StructureSlide35
Parallel Sentence Structure:
The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns.
CORRECT:
Mary
likes hik
ing
, swimm
ing
, and bicycl
ing
.
Mary
likes to
hike
,
swim
,
and
ride
a bicycle
.
INCORRECT:
Mary likes to hike, swim, and riding a bike.Slide36
Parody / SatireSlide37
Parody:
a composition that
imitates
the style of another composition, normally for
comic effect
Satire
: a composition that uses mockery, humor, exaggeration of someone or something
in order to expose and criticize it
Stephen Colbert and
South Park
use satire in order to comment on society trends and current events
Scary Movie
is a parody of other horror movies. While it may lead you to reflect on how stupid other scary movies are, its intention is solely to entertainSlide38
Oxymoron / ParadoxSlide39
Oxymoron:
the juxtaposition to two opposing words
Paradox:
a statement that appear to contradict itself but is also true
Oxymorons
:
“Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate/ O anything, from nothing first create/ O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!”
~
Romeo and Juliet
Paradox:
You can save money by spending it.
"I can resist anything but temptation."-Oscar Wilde