Tuesday, February 12, 2013

rhetorical scavenger hunt of the Letter from a Birmingham Jail

TASK: each group tonight is collecting rhetorical devices from MLK's famous text. Tomorrow we will fill it in so we have a comprehensive study guide


RHETORICAL DEVICES
EXAMPLE/HOW IS IT EFFECTIVE?


1.Litotes: A trope in which one makes a deliberate understatement for emphasis.


2.Anaphora: A scheme in which the same word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences.


3.Epistrophe: A scheme in which the same word is repeated at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences.


4.Antithesis: A scheme that makes use of contrasting words, phrases, sentences, or ideas for emphasis (generally used in parallel grammatical structures).


5.Parallelism: Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.


6.Juxtaposition: A comparison by contrast, usually structural similar

7.Periodic Sentence: A sentence, characterized by the suspension of the completion of sense until its end.


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