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

• Used to persuade audience

• Organize evidence

• Plan to convince/persuade readers

Have to use rhetorical devices

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

• built on literary devices

• appeals to senses

creates a more vivid image

Rhetorical Devices:

• 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

Imagry Devices

• 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

• Intended reason for why you are writing

  • Inform

  • Entertain

  • Question

  • Argue

  • Elicit emotional response

• Goal

• Intended effect

Devices → strategy  → purpose → effect on audience

Detail

• Facts, observation, incidents

• Specific detail

• NOT GENERAL DESCRIPTIONS
  Bring reader into the scene

• Prepares readers to join action

• More detail = better understanding