Enumeratio As A Rhetorical Devices

The devices used are crucial in the construction of this essay. The devices in my line of focus are Enumeratio, Imagery, and Anaphora. In this essay, the person in the story takes a first ever journey to Europe. The first rhetorical device I come across is Enumeratio. I believe this is used to describe the new place in which the person in the story is entering. It is vital in the understanding of the new area, even though this device is only used once. Enumeratio is used to describe or explain on a deeper level, which I can confidently say he does this in the one section he uses it. The reader is then given a broader picture of everything he is taking in. To continue on, the individual in the story explains his or her awe of this new place. Anaphora is used to express, in this case, the fact he has never seen something as he is seeing it now. The …show more content…
The sentence using this technique is this; “I had never seen a zebra crossing before, never seen a tram, never seen an unsliced loaf of bread (never even considered it an option), never seen anyone wearing a beret who expected to be taken seriously, never seen people go to a different shop for each item of dinner or provide their own shopping bags, never seen feathered pheasants and unskinned rabbits hanging in a butcher's window or a pig's head smiling on a platter, never seen a packet of Gitanes or the Michelin man.” Reading this, the author provides us with many visuals that is seen in the short story. When you read of an unsliced loaf of bread, that immediately comes to your mind. When you read of the Michelin man, or of a zebra crossing, those images and ideas of those objects, immediately pop into your head. This helps you create your own understanding of what the author is trying to get you to understand or picture. Bryson does an amazing job at getting you to follow the storyline and what is being done, or said, or