Rhetoric lecture

Rhetoric- the art of persuasive speaking or writing. It is not just what you say but how you say it. A rhetorical question is a question that doesn’t require an answer. It makes you think.

10 rhetorical devices/ Trops

1. personification – including human qualities in a non human thing
2. hyperbole – Exaggeration. Really big or small
3. Puns – combining two things that are visually similar. Like a blood bath
4. Antithesis – Juxtaposing two contrasting ideas to intensify differences. Like a bomb with the word Pease
5. Irony –  like a bullet going into a gun not out of it or a burning fire truck or police men speeding.
6. Metonymy – using an index image of one thing to stand for another thing. Usually more complex. Based on close association. Example using the symbol for tree a bunch of times to represent a forest.
7. Synecdoche – a part used to represent the whole, or a whole representing a part. Like rosy the riveter. Like a hand representing a human or all of humanity
8. Metaphor – A direct comparison of two seemingly unrelated objects by replacing one sign with another.  “the___is a____.”
9. Allegory – the literal or concrete device to symbolize an abstract idea or principle. Like racism represented by the absents or black keys on the keyboard.

Parody – Imitating another work to be funny, ironic.