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Rhetorical Devices
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Affirmation Pattern
Series of questions or statements that makes your audience shake their head yes.
• Do you like to stay up late?• Do you like to sleep in?• Do you like the opportunity to work when
you feel you are at your best?
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Alliteration
Repetition using the beginning consonant sounds of two or more neighboring words.
EXAMPLE: The kids stampede the stuffy streets at school at South.
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Allusion
is a reference to a familiar person, place, or thing.
"And I can pledge our nation to a goal: When we see that *wounded traveler on the road to Jericho, we will not pass to the other side." -- George W. Bush, 2000 Inaugural Address*reference to the Bible
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Analogy
is a comparison of an unfamiliar idea to a simple, familiar one. The suggestion is sometimes lengthy with several points of comparison.
Ex: "Withdrawal of U.S. troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public; the more U.S. troops come home, the more will be demanded."
-- Henry Kissinger, Memo to President Richard Nixon, 10 September 1969.
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Anaphora
the repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses
Example: "To raise a happy, healthy, and hopeful child, it takes a family; it takes teachers; it takes clergy; it takes business people; it takes community leaders; it takes those who protect our health and safety. It takes all of us."-- Hillary Clinton, 1996 Democratic National Convention Address
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Anecdote
is a short story told to illustrate a point.
Example: If you are giving a speech on stricter drunk driving laws, and you relate a story about a relative who was hit by a drunk driver.
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Antithesis
is a figure of speech involving bringing out opposites with parallel structure and grammar, usually done within the same sentence.
Example: When there is need of silence you speak; and when there is need of speech you are silent.
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Asyndeton
leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses
Example: "Be one of the few, the proud, the Marines."
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Hyperbole
The counterpart of understatement—deliberately exaggerates conditions for emphasis or effect.
Example: There are 1,000 reasons why more research is needed for solar energy.
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Metaphor
A form of figurative language which is a comparison between two seemingly unrelated subjects without using like or as.
Example: All the world’s a stage…
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Metonymy
using an associated symbol to represent the idea attached
Example: the bottle for alcoholism, Oval Office for President
“The pen is mightier than the sword”
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Negative definition
describing something by telling what it is not rather than, or in addition to, what it is.
Example: A Catholic is a Christian who is not a Protestant.
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Parallel structure
is the repetition of words or phrases in meaning and/or structure.
Example: I came, I saw, I conquered
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Repetition
is the uttering of the same word of phrase in order to create a sense or cadence, rhythm and emphasis.
Example: “Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linkedto one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.”(Natalia Ginzburg, The Little Virtues, 1962)
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Rhetorical questions
is a question posed to highlight a point, not for the purpose of eliciting a response.
Example: What are you going to do about it?