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Rhetorical Question

to ask a question of an audience to engage them without having a response from the audience

Emotive Language

"Imagine being cast out into the street, cold, lonely and frightened"

Parallel Structures

using the same part of speech or syntactic structure in (1) each element of a series (2) before and after coordinating conjunctions or (3) after each of a pair of correlative conjunctions

Example of Parallel Structure

"To show kindness us praiseworthy; to show hatred is evil"

Antithesis

opposition; contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction

Example of Antithesis

"Extremism in defense of liberty is no voice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue"

Chiasmus

two corresponding pairs arranged not in parallels (a,b,a,b) but in inverted order (a,b,b,a)

Example of Chiasmus

"Those gallant men will remain often in my thoughts and in my prayers, always"

Sound Patterns

Should be in threes Ex: Alliteration and Assonance Alliteration

Alliteration

"Callous, calculating cruelty-- is this what we must expect?"

Assonance

"A fine time we all had, too"

Contrast

to compare to point out striking differences


Example of Contrast "Sometimes we have to be cruel to be kind"

Description and Imagery

using metaphor, simile, and personification Example of Imagery "While we wait and do nothing, we must not forget that the fuse is already burning"

The 'rule of three'

"When you act, you must act quickly, decisively, and, above ll, fairly" Three makes a complete thought

Repetition for effect

"Evil minds will use evil means"

Anaphora

the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines

Diacope

repetition of a word or phrase broken up by other words or phrases. Cut in two


Example of Diacope "They will laugh, indeed they will laugh, at his parchment and his wax"

Hyperbole

an extravagant exaggeration of fact, use whether for serious or comic effect

Epicrisis

a circumstance in which a speaker quotes a passage and comments on it