Transcript Advanced Rhetorical Devices

Advanced Rhetorical Devices
Rhetoric is the art of using language effectively
and persuasively.
We all use rhetoric on a daily basis.
(We just may not call it a fancy name------yet.)
antithesis
A figure of speech which refers to the juxtaposition of
opposing or contrasting ideas. Brings out of a contrast in
ideas by an obvious contrast in the words, clauses, or
sentences, within a parallel grammatical structure.
example of antithesis
• It can't be wrong if it feels so right"
aporia
• Deliberating with oneself as though in doubt
over some matter; asking oneself (or
rhetorically asking one's hearers) what is the
best or appropriate way to approach
something.
• Example of aporia
Where shall I begin to describe her
wisdom? In her knowledge of facts? In her
ability to synthesize diverse matters? In her
capacity to articulate complex ideas
simply?
hyperbaton
• An inversion of normal word order. For
example placing the verb in front of the
subject
Example of aporia
• Why should their liberty than ours be more?
epistrophe
• Ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or
sentences with the same word or words.
Example of epistrophe
• What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny compared to what lies within us." —
Emerson
symploce
• The combination of anaphora and epistrophe:
beginning a series of lines, clauses, or
sentences with the same word or phrase while
simultaneously repeating a different word or
phrase at the end of each element in this
series.
Example of symploce
• "Against yourself you are calling him,
against the laws you are calling him,
against the democratic constitution you are
calling him"
Chiasmus
• Repetition of ideas or grammatical structures
in inverted order
Example of chiasmus
• It is boring to eat; to sleep is fulfilling
synesthesia
• Blending, merging, comingling of senses
• Using a visual sense to describe a sound for
example- or a smell for a color?
Example of synesthesia
• The wallpaper had a yellow smell-
synecdoche
• A type of metaphor- A whole is represented
by naming one of its parts or vice versa
Example of synecdoche
• Listen, you've got to come take a look at my
new set of wheels.
metonymy
• A type of metaphor in which the whole is
represented by something or someone
related to it or by naming one of its
attributes.
Example of metonymy
• The pen is mightier than the sword
anaphora
• Repetition of the same word or group of
words at the beginning of successive clauses,
sentences, or lines.
Example of anaphora
• This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
Periodic sentence
• Sentence in which the meaning or sense is
suspended until the end
Example of periodic sentence
• Of man's first disobedience and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste
Brought death into the world, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,
Sing Heav'nly Muse...
Milton