Effects of Rhetorical Devices Flashcards
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Asyndeton
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- creates a forceful, determined, confident tone
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Anaphora
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- alerts reader to a important idea
- repetition helps readers remember
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Chiasmus
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- juxtaposes ideas within a sentence
- makes sentence stand out so that audience listens more closely
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Direct address
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- gives audience a feeling of intimacy with the speaker
- gains audience’s attention
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Anastrophe
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Gets the audience thinking
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Parallelism
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Alerts of important idea
Provide similarity as well as contrast
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Polysyndeton
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Encourages audience to focus on each presented aspect
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Rhetorical questions
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Gets readers engaged
