Rhetorical Analysis Terms

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Rhetorical Analysis Terms

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Expository

• Highly organized prose which presents a viewpoint
  supported by fact and explanation
• Characteristics clear thesis, examples,
  analysis, structured, formal
• Examples
• Essay
• Research project

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Allegory (adj. Allegorical)

• The use of fictional characters and actions to
  represent truths about human nature
• Is an extended analogy
• Two levels of meaning-- the surface-level story
  and the deeper meaning (moral, political,
  philosophical, or religious)

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Parable

• A brief story which teaches a moral and often a
  religious lesson
• Is a type of allegory
• Interest lies in what things stand for rather
  than exactly what happens
• Example Stories in the New Testament

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Parody (verb- Parodies)

• A piece of writing or music that deliberately
  copies another work in a comic or satirical way

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Weird Al- A master of parody
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Satire (Adj- satirical verb- satirizes)

• A work that attacks human vice or foolishness
  using irony, wit, and sarcasm
• Primary purpose is to provoke a response or a
  reform (rather than just for entertainment)
• Has a purpose
• Tone humorous, critical, sarcastic, sardonic
  (disdainfully or ironically mocking),
  tongue-in-cheek (gentle irony meant as a joke),
  hyperbolic (exaggerated)

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Satire of Star Wars
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Example of Satire
What is this satirizing??
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What is this satirizing??
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Irony (adj.- Ironic)

• Device used to convey a meaning opposite of what
  is expected

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Examples of Irony
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Paradox (adj. paradoxical)

• A statement that seems self-contradictory but
  contains an underlying truth
• Examples
• We had to destroy the village in order to save
  it.
• He is guilty of being innocent.
• The past in the prologue.

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Oxymoron

• Two contradictory words used together
• Examples
• Sweet pain
• Cheerful pessimist
• Civil war
• Special curse

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Anecdote

• A short personal account or story used to
  illustrate a point
• Anecdotal evidence proof derived from
  observation (stories one can tell to prove an
  assertion)

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Allusion (Verb- alludes The author alluded to
WWI as an illustration of youth being ruined by
war

• References to material outside of the work
• (Usually are just mentioned rather than explained
  as an example must be familiar to reader to
  work)
• 1) Literary
• 2)Historical
• 3)Current events
• 4)Pop culture
• 5)Personal

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How many allusions can you find in this short
clip?Write bullet notes of the allusions as you
watch the clip. Show Shrek clip
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Synecdoche

• A figure of speech in which a part of something
  represents the whole.

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Examples of Synecdoche
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Metonymy

• A figure of speech which substitutes a
  suggestive word for what is actually meant.
• Examples
• Using crown for royalty
• Bottle for booze
• Bread for food
• Very closely related to synecdoche

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Analogy (adj.- analogous)

• A comparison of related ideas or things
• Extended analogy- analogy that is used throughout
  a passage- Murder analogy in Gregory Pecks
  speech and Prayer analogy in Danny DeVitos
  speech in movie Other Peoples Money
• Two types Metaphor and simile

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Epithet

• A word or phrase which is used as a name to
  describe a persons special characteristic

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Examples of Epithets
Magic Johnson (For his magical skills on the
court)
Barbara Bush- The Silver Fox (For her silver hair)

• (Epithet in other contexts is an insulting word
  or phrase (curse words)
• She used an epithet before leaving him at the
  altar.

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Idiom

• An expression which is understood by a group of
  people because it has become an accepted saying
  usually does not mean what it literally says
• Idioms are especially difficult for non-native
  speakers
• Idioms are different in every language

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Examples of idioms

• Take a hike.
• Are you pulling my leg?
• Its raining cats and dogs.
• Break a leg.
• Take it easy.
• Mending fences
• Dont choke.
• Chew on it
• Basketcase

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Its raining cats and dogs!
Where does this idiom come from?
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• This phrase's origin is unknown. Possible
  explanations include
• Lightning and thunder sounds like that of a
  cat/dog fight
• Cats had a big influence on the weather, and the
  sky dog Odin was attended to by wolves according
  to Norse Mythology.
• Another theory is that in old England, they had
  hay roofs on their houses and the cats and dogs
  would sleep on the roof. When it rained, the
  roofs got slippery and the cats and dogs would
  slide off of the roofs. Therefore, it was
  "Raining Cats and Dogs".

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• A scapegoat is someone who gets the blame for a
  scandal/mistake typically, the scapegoat is
  either completely innocent, or at least is only
  one of many guilty people. This originates from
  the Old Testament of the Bible, in which a goat
  was sent into the wilderness for the sins of its
  owner. Lev 1610 "But the goat on which the lot
  for the scapegoat fell shall be presented alive
  before the LORD, to make atonement upon it, to
  send it into the wilderness as a scapegoat."

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Rhetorical question (erotema)

• A question which is asked for effect rather than
  for an answer.

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Aphorism

• A statement that reveals a truth or principle
  that can be attributed to a specific person

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Examples of aphorisms

• A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
  -Shakespeare

Life is like a box of chocolates. - Forrest Gump
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Proverb

• The same as an aphorism, but is so generally
  known that the authorship is lost
• Examples
• Still waters run deep.
• A rolling stone gathers no moss.
• Money is the root of all evil.

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Maxim

• A statement that gives behavioral advice
• Examples
• The early bird gets the worm.
• Practice makes perfect.

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Apostrophe

• Addressing or speaking to a non-living thing or
  an absent person
• Examples
• Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll.
• I said to Love
• O eloquent, just and mighty Death!
• A form of personification

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Anachronism

• A reference to something which did not exist at
  the time of the story.
• Example
• The clock that strikes in Julius Caesar even
  though clocks did not exist in Rome during the
  time of Caesar

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