Rhetorical Devices Used In Literature

Once observing three works of literature, “Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift, “Why I Want A Wife”by Judy Brady, and lastly, “The Flea” by John Donne. Rhetorical Devices are the efforts of persuading the readers to look at something within a story in a different light. Satirical Devices is the use of irony, sarcasm,and hyperbole within a work of literature in the hopes of proving or seeking an underlying moral of the work of literature that the author is trying to reach with his or hers audience. Lastly logical Fallacies,regarding Ethos,Pathos and Logos, being the appeals to experts,emotion and data or numbers in a sense. It soon became clear of what works of literature fit within each classification in the terms of what each work of literature …show more content…
While the man on other hand is seeking to gain the woman in a different kind of gain, “oh stay, three lives in one flea spare,where we almost nay more than married are. This flea is you are I and the four marriage bed,and marriage temple is”(10-14). However, aside from the fact that it speaks on pathos I feel as if this method of literature is the least effective in regards of the work itself and the numerous amount of meaning that can be brought upon the work. Secondly, with “Modest Proposal” it is best for Rhetorical Device, because although the authors reach for understanding within the audience of readers is the hopes of stopping poverty, the actions of going about it is the use of something that in the end is worth making you read further through the work of literature in seeking if the author is being serious or not. Lastly, discussing “Why I Want A Wife”, and its seeking of appealing to be an Satirical Device with its use of irony, as well as, the use of sarcasm when it comes to the discussion of what a wife is expected to do, and also the daily roles of a wife making it the second most effective in the sense of