Retorical Devices 2

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Allegory

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the device of using character and/or story elements symbollically to represent an abstraction in addition to literal meaning.
(i.e. an author may intend the characters to personify an abstraction like hope or freedom. This usually deals w/ moral truth or a generalization.)

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Syntax

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The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. This is similar to diction, but you can think of syntax as the group of words, while diction refers to the individual words.

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Prose

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One of the major divisions of genre, this refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms.

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Deductive Reasoning

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Reasoning in which one derives a specific conclusion from something generally or universally understood to be true.
(i.e. Chicken is supposed to be healthy (general); This sandwich contains chicken, so it is probably healthy.(specific))

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Inductive Reasoning

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Reasoning in which one arrives at a general conclusion from specific instance.
(i.e. I got hives from the shrimp I ate last night (specific); I must be allergic to shellfish (general))

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Polysyndenton

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Figure of addition and emphasis which intentionally employs a series of conjunctions (and, or, but, for, nor, so, yet) not normally found in successive words, phrases, or clauses; the deliberate and excessive use of conjunctions in successive words or clauses.
(i.e. "In years gone by, there were very community men and women who spoke the language of duty and mortality and loyalty and obligation"-William F. Buckley)

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Situational Irony

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Involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected.

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Undertone

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An attitude that may lie under the ostensible tone of the piece.
(i.e. Under a cheery surface, a work may have threatening undertones.)

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Wit

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