Rhetorical devices. 25-52

  1. Euphemism - The substitution of an inoffensive ler for one considered offensively explicit
  2. Extended Metaphor - A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of
    sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.
  3. Figurative Language - Language in which figures of speech (such as metaphors, similes, and
    hyperbole) freely occur.
  4. Flashback - A writing technique used to alter time in order to convey a past event or significant
    occurrence
  5. Foreshadowing-A writing technique used to subtly suggest or indicate something ahead of time in a
    text.
  6. Genre - A category of artistic composition, as in film or literature, marked by a distinctive style, form,
    or content.
    32 Hyperphora-a rhetorical device where a speaker or writer states a question and then immediately
    answers the question
  7. Hyperbole - Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
  8. Idiom - An expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but must be learned as a whole e.g. "piece of cake
  9. Imagery - writing about objects actions and deas in such a way that it appeals to our five physical senses
  10. Informative/Expository Writing- a type of composition in which the writer seeks to present or report on information accurately for the purpose of improving the readers understanding of an issue problem or concept
  11. Irony - the use of worde to express something other than and especially the opposite or literal meaning
  12. Jargon - The specialized language of a professional, occupational, or other group, offen meaningless to outsiders.
  13. Juxtaposition - A writer's side by side placement of two descriptions, ideas, characters, actions, or events in a text
  14. Kairos- An appeal to time or place.
  15. Logical Fallacies-are errors found in the reasoning of an argument*
  16. Logos - An appeal to logic or reason.
  17. Meiosis/Understatement - The presentation of a thing with underemphasis especially in order to
    achieve a greater effect, understatement.
  18. Metaphor - A word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or
    suggest that they are similar
  19. Metonymy -a figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated such as “crown”' or "royalty”
  20. Mood - The prevalling atmosphere or emotional aura of a work. Setting tone and events pan affect the mood.
  21. Narrative Writing- a type of composilion that tells a story, the elements of which may be fiction or
    nonfiction.
  22. Onomatopoeia - The forning of a word (as "buzz" or hiss") in imitation of a natural sound.
  23. Oxymoron - A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side.
  24. Pacing-The methods or stralegies a wrier uses to advance a plot or create tension, mood, and/or
    tone in a text.
  25. Paradox - A statement that appears to contradict itself but actually contains a degree of truth.
  26. Parallelism/Parallel Structure - The similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words
    phrases, or clauses. Involves the repelition of verb forms parts of speech, phrases, clauses, etc.