Rhetorical Devices by Robert Auner https://padlet.com/robert_auner/ysjcqhhv2i6a By: Isaac Auner, Norah Hamilton, Matthew Parker, Timmy Finneran, and Samantha Hansson en-us 2018-03-09 13:48:56 UTC 2018-03-14 12:55:14 UTC hello@padlet.com Analogy robert_auner https://padlet.com/robert_auner/ysjcqhhv2i6a/wish/240139197 What it means: To compare two things in order to further the understanding of the reader or audience.

Examples:
“Climbing is a journey and not a destination. Men do not conquer mountains any more than a flea conquers an elephant by climbing up its back."
- Beck Weathers, On Surviving Mount Everest

“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing." 
- Macbeth, Act V, William Shakespeare


]]> 2018-03-09 13:50:08 UTC https://padlet.com/robert_auner/ysjcqhhv2i6a/wish/240139197 Antithesis robert_auner https://padlet.com/robert_auner/ysjcqhhv2i6a/wish/240817481 What it means: To intentionally show two ideas that are opposite in a parallel structure.

Examples:
"Serenity now; insanity later."
 - from Lloyd Braun in the Seinfeld episode "The Serenity Now"

“Patience is bitter, but it has a sweet fruit.” 
- Aristotle]]> 2018-03-12 12:43:02 UTC https://padlet.com/robert_auner/ysjcqhhv2i6a/wish/240817481 Hypophora timothy_finneran https://padlet.com/robert_auner/ysjcqhhv2i6a/wish/241338280 Definition:
Hypophora is a figure of speech in which a writer raises a question, and then immediately provides an answer to that question.

Examples:
"When the enemy struck on that June day of 1950, what did America do? It did what it always has done in all its times of peril. It appealed to the heroism of its youth."
 -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, I Shall Go to Korea Address

"There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, 'When will you be satisfied?' We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality."
(Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream," August 1963) 
]]> 2018-03-13 13:04:02 UTC https://padlet.com/robert_auner/ysjcqhhv2i6a/wish/241338280 Epanalepsis samantha_hansson https://padlet.com/robert_auner/ysjcqhhv2i6a/wish/241338519 What it means: To repeat the first part of a sentence at the end of a sentence. 

Example:  "The king is dead, long live the king!"]]> 2018-03-13 13:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/robert_auner/ysjcqhhv2i6a/wish/241338519 Asyndeton matthew_parker84 https://padlet.com/robert_auner/ysjcqhhv2i6a/wish/241342118 Definition: the absence of a conjunction between different parts of a sentence. 

Examples:
 Veni Vedi Veci. Or "I came, I saw, I conquered."


"...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the Earth." - Abraham Lincoln
Read more at http://examples.yourdictionary.com/asyndeton-examples.html#v10PHIrcO6Fo37Du.99

]]> 2018-03-13 13:10:28 UTC https://padlet.com/robert_auner/ysjcqhhv2i6a/wish/241342118 Parallelism timothy_finneran https://padlet.com/robert_auner/ysjcqhhv2i6a/wish/241346834 Definition:
Figure of balance identified by a similarity in the syntactical structure of a set of words in successive phrases, clauses, sentences; successive words, phrases, clauses with the same or very similar grammatical structure.

Examples:
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." 
-- John F. Kennedy, Presidential Inaugural Address

“My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”
- John F. Kennedy
]]> 2018-03-13 13:17:30 UTC https://padlet.com/robert_auner/ysjcqhhv2i6a/wish/241346834 Diacope matthew_parker84 https://padlet.com/robert_auner/ysjcqhhv2i6a/wish/241347260 Definition: is a rhetorical term meaning repetition of a word or phrase with one or two intervening words. It derives from a Greek word meaning "cut in two".

Examples: 
"Bond. James Bond"

"To be, or not to be."



]]> 2018-03-13 13:18:09 UTC https://padlet.com/robert_auner/ysjcqhhv2i6a/wish/241347260 Euphemismos samantha_hansson https://padlet.com/robert_auner/ysjcqhhv2i6a/wish/241348273 When an inappropriate phrase is turned into a mild version of the phrase.

Example: Passed away instead of 'Died'
Example: Differently Abled instead of 'disabled']]> 2018-03-13 13:19:37 UTC https://padlet.com/robert_auner/ysjcqhhv2i6a/wish/241348273