Rhetorical Terms #26-31

Kim UpdikeDanny Loevy

Nick YanMary-Hall Keyes

Personification

Definition: Giving non-human things human characteristics/traits

Ex. In the Pixar movie Cars, the cars are personified into talking characters.

Polysyndeton

Definition: Deliberate and excessive use of conjunctions in successive words or clauseEx. We lived and laughed and loved and left.Used to give emphasis, used to slow down the

literature piece

Pun

Definitions: Humorous use of a word or a phrase to emphasize or suggest its different meaning or application

Ex. A horse is a very stable animal. Energizer Bunny arrested -- charged with battery.

Rhetorical Question

Question that isn’t answered because the answer is obviousWriter does not expect an answerEx: Is the Pope Catholic?Isn’t this great?!

Syntax

Definition: The way an author links words into sentences (syntax=group of words, diction=individual words)Follows set of rulesEx. When people learn how to properly form sentences.

Zeugma

Definition: Use of a word to modify two or more words when its appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each or in a different wayTaking verb, verb is modifying or referring to concrete or abstractEx. She gave him her heart and hand to hold for affection or love.

MATCHING GAME

1. Pun

2. Rhetorical Question

3. Zeugma

4. Personification

5. Syntax

6. Polysyndeton

A. Giving non-human things

human characteristics/traits B. The way an author links words

into sentences

C. Deliberate and excessive use of conjunctions in successive words or clauses

D. I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. It's impossible to put down.

E. You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit.

F. Isn’t this great?!?!