Rhetorical Devices/ Literary Elements (Week 1) Flashcards
a literary device that reflects the writer’s attitude toward the subject matter or audience of a literary work.
Tone
the linguistic choices (aka word choice) made by a writer to convey an idea or point of view, or tell a story, in an effective way.
Diction
uses figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive, and impactful. Metaphors, similes, and allusions go beyond the literal meanings of the words to give readers new insights. On the other hand, alliterations, imageries, or onomatopoeias are figurative devices that appeal to the senses of the readers.
Figurative language
an idea or thing is given human attributes and/or feelings or is spoken of as if it were human. ______________ is a common form of metaphor in that human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman things.
Personification
a rhetorical device that features repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences, phrases, or clauses. It allows writers to convey, emphasize, and reinforce meaning. This word repetition at the beginning of each phrase in a group of sentences or clauses is a stylized technique that can be very effective in speeches, lyrics, poetry, and prose.
Anaphora
a reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar.
Allusion
a literary device that creates heightened effect through deliberate exaggeration.
Hyperbole
Greek for “character”
Speakers appeal to ______ to demonstrate that they are credible and trustworthy.
Appeals to _______ often emphasize shared values between the speaker and the audience
Ethos
Greek for “embodied thought”
Speakers appeal to ______, or reason, by offering clear, rational ideas. Appealing to logos means thinking logically-having a clear main idea and using specific details, examples, facts, statistics, or expert testimony to back it up
Logos
Speakers appeal to emotions, values, desires, and hopes, on the one hand, or fears and prejudices, on the other. An effective speaker or writer understands the power of evoking an audience’s emotions by using tools like fig. language, personal anecdotes, and vivid images.
Pathos
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
Propaganda
A term consisting of two or more words or ideas that apparently contradict one another
PARADOX
A line, or set of lines, repeated in a poem
REFRAIN
Song-like poem which tells a story
BALLAD
Highly musical; expresses feelings of one speaker
LYRIC
