Close Reading: The Art and Craft of Rhetorical Analysis

Style contributes

to the meaning, purpose and effect of a text, whether it's written oral or visual.

satire

ridicule of folly or to expose to correct an incident, the rules of united airlines fight or flight club

diction

Speaker's choice of words

syntax

The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language; usually the speaker decides

tone

Tone: the feeling the speaker wants to invoke on the audience from his text

Mood

feeling created by the speaker's work

metaphor

comparison without using the words like or as

simile

comparison that uses the words like or as.

personification

a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human emotions and feelings

hyperbole

a figure of speech that uses deliberate exaggeration to create a heightened effect

Parrallelism

repetition of grammatical structure to keep a fluid read for the audience

juxtaposition

placing elements together to represent a comparison or contrast

antithesis

the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, most commonly in parallel structure

compound sentence

a sentence with more than one subject or predicate.

complex sentence

a sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses.

periodic sentence

a complex sentence in which the main clause comes last and is preceded by the subordinate clause

cumulative sentence

a sentence that completes its main clause/thought at the beginning and then adds to it

imperative sentence

a sentence used for commands or requests

examples of sentence types

compound, complex, imperative, cumulative

syntax interesting constructions

parallelism, juxtaposition, antithesis, and sentence types