AP Lang - Rhetorical Strategy

Rhetorical strategy :: A specific approach(s) a writer employs to achieve an intended purpose

Have to use rhetorical devices

Imagery :: language and description that appeals to our five senses

creates a more vivid image

Alliteration :: Repetition of same-sound and the beginning of successive word
- ==bright blue ball==
Epanalepsis :: Repetition of same word or clause after and intervening matter
- a minimum ==wage==, that is not a supporting ==wage==, is not a minimum ==wage==
Anastrophe :: Normal syntactical arrangement is violated for emphasis
- ==troubles, everybody’s got==
Parenthesis :: Insertion the interrupts syntax flow
- the cat ==(which was the cutest thing ever)== was so soft
Asyndeton :: Omission of conjunction → slower rhythm + emphasis
- Can use semicolon to break thought up
- ==I came, i saw, i conquered== vs. i came, i saw and i conquered
Polysyndeton :: Adding in many conjunctions between clauses → hurried rhythm + pileup effect
- i wore ==a hat and a coat and a scarf and mittens and boots==
Apostrophe :: Breaking off discord to address a person or personified thing
- Talking to inanimate objects or people that aren't there
- NOT personification
- ==O’ wise one…==
Pleonasm :: Use more words than necessary
- ==with these very eyes, i saw him do it, i heard it with my ears==
Hyperbole :: Rhetorical exaggeration
- I told you a ==million== times…
Oxymoron :: Paradoxical image with two contradicting terms
- ==awfully pretty, tragic comedy, open secret==

Anadiplosis :: the repetition of the last word/phrase from the previous line at the begging of the next
- she opened ==a cafe. a cafe== that was to be the most popular in town.
Metaphor :: giving an inanimate object/person a meaning/action that is not literal
- the waves ==roared==, the wind ==whispered==,
Simile :: one thing is likened to another
- life’s ==like== a box of chocolates, she ran ==like== a cheetah
Personification :: an animal/inanimate object is given human qualities
- the sun ==smiled== down on us
Synaesthesia :: mixing sensory output in an impossible way
- her voice was as smooth as velvet
- ==taste the rainbow==
Cacophony :: opposite of euphony, bad sounds in a section of text. discordant and difficult to pronounce
- never my numb ==plunker== fumbles
Euphony :: opposite of cacophony, pleasing/harmonious sounds
- ==marvelous, mellow, mist==
Apotheosis :: the glorification of an individual to a divine level
- she has the patience of a ==saint==
Onomatopoeia :: word whose sounds imitates that of which it names
- ==plop, kerplunk, splash==

Purpose

Devices → strategy → purpose → effect on audience

Detail