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metaphor
A device in which the same word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of multiple
clauses or sentences AND the same word
is repeated at the end of multiple clauses or sentences.
Usage:
This form is simple and Obvious and should be easy to icognize. When the author
Uses this device, he is planting flags of concepts he wants the reader to especially
note. The total parallelism of this device creates a feeling Of completion as well as
emphasis.
,Example:
"The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man
who has lost everything except his reason."
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Term 4) Definition
exemplum Definition:
Simply provides the reader with an
example
to illustrate a point.
Usage:
Some of the strongest of these are
drawn from the real world. Make sure
you have correct facts, though. A good
one of these should support your point
in a way that seems natural.
Example:
"It being my purpose to write the lives
of Alexander the king, and of Cesar, by
whom Pompey was destroyed, the
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multitude of their great actions affords
so large a field that I were to blame
When once Alexander had given way to
fears of super natural influence, his
mind grew so disturbed and so easily
alarmed
But a diseased habit of body, caused
by drugs which Olympias gave him,
had ruined not only his health, but his
understanding." The excerpt is about
an exemplum of the legendary
Alexander the Great. The moral point
of this narrative is that an individual
can change a person's, as well as a
whole nation's, destiny. Plutarch shows
how, in history, characters like
Alexander the Great have shaped the
destinies of states and individuals.
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Term 4)) Definition
Definition: Parataxis
The leaving out of conjunctions
items in a list or between clauses.
Usage:
This device can be used for many
reasons. When there are only two
items, the second one can clarify the
first one. It can indicate that the list
was spontaneous or not quite
finished.
Example:
Speed up the film, Montag, quick.
Click, Pic, Look, Eye, Now,
Flick, Here, There, Swift, Pace,
Up, Down, In, Out, Why, How,
Who, What, Where, Eh? Uh! Bang!
Smack! Wallop, Bing, Bong,
Boom! - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray
Bradbury
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Term 4))
metaphor
A device in which the same word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of multiple
clauses or sentences AND the same word
is repeated at the end of multiple clauses or sentences.
Usage:
This form is simple and Obvious and should be easy to icognize. When the author
Uses this device, he is planting flags of concepts he wants the reader to especially
note. The total parallelism of this device creates a feeling Of completion as well as
emphasis.
,Example:
"The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man
who has lost everything except his reason."
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v/ symploce
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Term 4) Definition
exemplum Definition:
Simply provides the reader with an
example
to illustrate a point.
Usage:
Some of the strongest of these are
drawn from the real world. Make sure
you have correct facts, though. A good
one of these should support your point
in a way that seems natural.
Example:
"It being my purpose to write the lives
of Alexander the king, and of Cesar, by
whom Pompey was destroyed, the
,AP Lang - Rhetorical Devices exam
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multitude of their great actions affords
so large a field that I were to blame
When once Alexander had given way to
fears of super natural influence, his
mind grew so disturbed and so easily
alarmed
But a diseased habit of body, caused
by drugs which Olympias gave him,
had ruined not only his health, but his
understanding." The excerpt is about
an exemplum of the legendary
Alexander the Great. The moral point
of this narrative is that an individual
can change a person's, as well as a
whole nation's, destiny. Plutarch shows
how, in history, characters like
Alexander the Great have shaped the
destinies of states and individuals.
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Term 4)) Definition
Definition: Parataxis
The leaving out of conjunctions
items in a list or between clauses.
Usage:
This device can be used for many
reasons. When there are only two
items, the second one can clarify the
first one. It can indicate that the list
was spontaneous or not quite
finished.
Example:
Speed up the film, Montag, quick.
Click, Pic, Look, Eye, Now,
Flick, Here, There, Swift, Pace,
Up, Down, In, Out, Why, How,
Who, What, Where, Eh? Uh! Bang!
Smack! Wallop, Bing, Bong,
Boom! - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray
Bradbury
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