Rhetorical Tools
Define (in language that you believe would be most easily understood) each of the rhetorical tools below and provide an example of their use. Each person should define the tool in their own words and each person should provide one example.
Allusion – Thalia & Maylene
Analogy – Jaydon & Sourav
Anecdote – Justin & Nishat
Hyperbole – Alondra & Tanvir
Irony – Jolnelis & Sammir
Oxymoron – Karla & Shamadi
Paradox – Nazin & Salma
Trope – Jeremy & Haroun
Syllogism – Emily & Alexis
Refutation – Samantha & Julia
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Example:
Rhetorical tool: alliteration
Definition: repetition of the initial consonant sound in words that come after one another
Example(s):
- Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
OR
- We all deserve a happy home, a healthy family, and a hopeful future
Hyperbole is when you exaggerate a point. It’s frequently used to make something dramatic.
Example: ” I was so tired, I could sleep for years.”
I agree with my partner. Hyperbole is used when a writer wants to exaggerate a point. This can make the sentence more entertaining and let the readers be more into the story. It is used to show a point that they are saying. When my partner used the example, that was exaggeration because, obviously she won’t sleep for years but it was a way to let the readers know how tired she actually is.
Example: ” I am so hungry that i can eat a horse.”
Oxymoron is a rhetorical tool which combines two self-contradicting ideas in order to make a phrase.
Examples: awfully pretty
dark light
Rhetorical tool: Oxymoron
Definition: is when the author/writer uses two terms that contradict each other
Examples
1. “The strokes of the painting were perfectly imperfect”
2. “Yea, my day was pretty bad”
Rhetorical tool: refutation
Definition: when someone proves a statement or theory wrong.
Example: She refutes the claim of another student in a class debate using evidence from her readings and documents.
Rhetorical tool: Paradox
Definition: A statement that seems to contradict but is actually true. It must be true and untrue at the same time.
Example: Wise fool.
Nazin Rahman: It is a self-contradictory statement that is actually true.
Example: “This is the beginning of the end.”
Nazin Rahman: It is a self-contradictory statement that is actually true.
Example: “This is the beginning of the end
ANALOGY
We use the Rhetorical Device “Analogy” to compare two completely different things. This is done to prove the authors’ point. The authors might use it to show the audience similarities and dissimilarities between two or more living or non-living things.
EXAMPLE: As light as a feather. Chao!
An anecdote is a short and interesting story it’s often used to demonstrate a point or to make the audience laugh. Its often used to present background information to the audience.
Example: “I like talking to myself. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”
An Analogy a comparison of two things used to explain something.
Example: You’re as sweet as brown sugar
“Trope” is a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression that can also be used via phrase or image. the word has been used to commonly be described towards recurring literary and rhetorical devices, motifs or clichés in creative works.
An example you can use is a line from Romeo and Juliet ” Two household both alike in Dignity” (Jeremy’s example)
“To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet” (Haroun Saleh)
Refutation is a literary device in which you are able to negate an argument or opinion, having the ability to prove another statement false.
Example: “Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there’s not a liberal America and a conservative America; there’s the United States of America. There’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America.” – Barack Obama
Allusion is like a reference with a deeper meaning. It is a reference to something famous or really well known.
Example: “This place is like the Garden of Eden.”
This is a famous reference to the Bible because everyone knows that it’s a place God had created for Adam and Eve and it was said to be a paradise. Therefore, the place is a paradise to be at.
A syllogism is taking a subject and giving it reasoning and purposing within a chain.
Example: An apple is a fruit. All fruits are healthy. Therefore, apples are healthy.