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Devices needed on Part V

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Anaphora
Rhetorical Question
Verbal Irony
Repetition
Antithesis
Parallelism
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Anaphora

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Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a successive clauses
“I listen to music when I wake up, I listen to music when I tie my tie, I listen to music in my car, I listen to music as I cook…”

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Rhetorical Questions

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Questions asked to make a point - Not to be answered

“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?”

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Repetition

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Act of Repeating Something

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Verbal Irony

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Saying something but meaning something else

“Clear as dirt”

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Antithesis

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Two opposites introduced for contrasting effect

“Money is the root of all evils: poverty is the fruit of all goodness.”

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Parallelism

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Same pattern of words to show equal importance

“Mother was very busy gathering the laundry, dusting the furniture and washing the dishes.”

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Tone

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The mood of the poem

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Rhyme Scheme

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Ordered pattern of rhymes at the end of lines in a poem

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Rhythm

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Strong, regular pattern of movement or sound

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Imagery

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Visually descriptive or figurative language

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“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus, and we petty men walk under his huge legs and peep about to find ourselves dishonorable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fate.”

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Cassius speaking to Brutus - Cassius would like Brutus to join his forces while he and the rest of the conspirators plan to assassinate Julius Caesar

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“Cowards, die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”

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Julius Caesar, talking to his wife Calphurnia - She has seen many bad omens and does not want Caesar to leave, but he knows he must go to the Capitol

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“Let’s kill him boldly, but not wrathfully. Let’s carve him as a dish fit for the Gods, not hew him as a carcass fit for the hounds”

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Brutus talking to the conspirators - He says their killing is not wrathful, rather heroic and beneficial to Rome

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“He must be taught and trained and bid go forth - A barren-spirited fellow, one that feeds on objects, arts, and imitation which, out of use and staled by other men, began his fashion. Do not talk of him but as a property”

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Antony talking to Octavius - About controlling Lepidus as a puppet because he is not as strong as a leader.

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“Come now, keep thine oath. Now be a freeman, and with this good sword that ran through Caesar’s bowels, search this bosom. Stand not to answer. Here, take thou the hilts, and, when my face is covered, as ‘tis now, guide thou the sword.”

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Cassius speaking to a conspirator - He wants to conspirator to kill him because he realizes that he is fighting a lost cause and it is more honorable to kill himself.

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“I thrice presented him with a kingly crown, which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, and sure he is an honorable man”

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Antony is talking at Caesar’s funeral oration - He was sneakily turned his praise for the conspirators into turning the crowd against them by emphasizing the crudeness of their behavior.

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“We at the height are ready to decline, There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads to fortune, omitted all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries”

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Brutus is speaking to Cassius trying to convince him that it is time they must go to battle against Octavius and Antony’s army

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“I would recommend him to sacrifice it. I want only your authority. I am sure it does no good … I sanction it. But, I would not take it away while he is present. Let it be removed when he is not there”

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Lorry is suggesting to Dr. Manette that he and Miss Pross take away his shoemaking table, hoping that it will prevent any further relapses.

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“I should ask that I might be permitted to come and go as a privileged person here; that I might be regarded as a useless piece of furniture, tolerated for its old service.”

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Sydney Carton is speaking to Charles Darnay - Hoping to become friends and have the privilege of coming and going to the house as he pleases

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“I see a beautiful city, and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come… It is a far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known”

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Sydney Carton is narrating his wait to his sacrificial death for Charles Darnay

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“Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Saw the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over and over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind”

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The narrator is speaking of his attitude towards the French revolution - The lower class has been tainted by the upper class aristocrats

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“Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from JACQUES.”

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The murder note left on the Marquis’ dead body which morbidly mocks the fast carriage ride that resulted in the death of Gaspard’s son

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“These fools know nothing. While they despise your breath, and would stop it forever and ever, in you or in a hundred like you rather than in once of their own horse or dogs.”

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Defarge speaking to the mender of roads about the aristocrats whom the peasants had just cheered.

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“But, now I believe that the mark of the red crass is fatal to them, and that they have no part in his mercies… I denounce them to Heaven and to earth”

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Doctor Manette’s prison manuscript which condemns Darnay as a member of the hated Evremonde clan

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“Oh, a peckin’ party can wipe out the whole flock in a matter of a few hours, buddy, I seen it. A mighty awesome sight. The only way to prevent it - with chickens - is to clip binders on them”

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McMurphy gives an explanation to Harding and the other patients as to why they are picking on Harding

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“So she really lets herself go and her painted smile twists, stretches to an open snarl, and she blows up bigger and bigger, big as a tractor, so big I can smell the machinery inside the way you smell a motor pulling too big a load”

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Bromden’s vision of Ratched as an agent of the Combine

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“Because he know’s that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy”

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Bromden observing Chief on the fishing trip

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“I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God”

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Bromden shows us that he is a very unreliable narrator.