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    have added to make it better.. to make an essay more effective what you need are rhetorical devices. Rhetorical devices are techniques that are used to convey and persuade the reader or listener to consider a topic from another perspective. using rhetorical devices is a style of speaking or writing that trys to create a particular effect or bring out a particular response from a reader‚ some effective rhetorical devices are personification‚ alliteration‚ connotation and In the essay An Ode to the

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    Shilleh Sister Zainab AP English 14 October 2014 Rhetorical Devices: The Scarlet Letter 1. Anaphora: repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginnings of successive clauses. “…with the hot‚ midday sun burning down upon her face‚ and lighting up its shame; with the scarlet token of infamy on her breast; with the sin-born infant in her arms; with a whole people‚ drawn forth as to a festival…” (Pgs. 54-55) This is an example of the device anaphora because Hawthorne begins four consecutive

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    Rhetorical Device Definition When to use or Example Hyperbole Rhetorical exaggeration. Hyperbole is often accomplished via comparisons‚ similes‚ and metaphors. Make a point strongly. Makes the reader snap to attention and foucus. Demonstrates the difference between two things. Caution it is overused and can weaken writing if not used carefully. Do not use to avoid using actual figures or just fill up space Understatement A rhetorical form in which the force of a descriptive statement is less

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    2. Rhetorical Devices and Literary Techniques Rhetorical devices and literary techniques are closely related to tone and style. In fact‚ an author’s style partly consists of selecting and using certain devices; an author’s tone is partially determined by the type of techniques an author uses. Many SAT books will list lots of Greek terms you don’t need to know‚ such as synecdoche and anaphora. But the Critical Reading section won’t require that you know the names of rhetorical devices or literary

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    food‚ to the language‚ to the types of clothes people wore. He wrote this section to inform the people back home about how different Europe was from New York and‚ possibly‚ to gloat about his world travels. In the first paragraph Bryson uses the rhetorical technique of hyperbole while describing his backpack. He says‚ “I half expected to be asked‚ "Anything to declare? Cigarettes? Alcohol? Dead horse?" Bryson is implying that his backpack is so massive that he could fit a dead horse in it. This‚ of

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    LEXICAL STYLISTIC DEVICES Metaphor Genuine metaphors Trite(dead) metaphors Metonymy Metonymy Metonymy is the substitution of one word for another with which it is associated: ‘The White House said…’ (the American government) ; the press (newspapers and magazines); the cradle(infancy‚ place of origin);the grave(death); The hall applauded; The marble spoke; The kettle is boiling; I am fond of Agatha Christie; We didn’t speak because there were ears all around us; He was about a sentence away from

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    are some of the important rhetorical methods that many authors use to portray their ideas. In “A Piece of Chalk” (1905)‚ G.K. Chesterton demonstrates his adept writing ability in using those methods as a means of appeal to convey that everything is beautiful and valuable in its own way. His piece of writing not only exemplifies the use of contradiction‚ humor‚ analogy and metaphor‚ but also succeeds in using relevant support and evidence. Initially‚ the first rhetorical technique that Chesterton

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    Henry convinced colonists to fight against Britain; he uses four main rhetorical devicesrhetorical questions‚ allusions‚ imagery‚ and parallelism. Through these devices he softens his tone to get his fiery messages across. With rhetorical questions he suggests the answer he wants the colonists to make. Likewise‚ as he uses imagery‚ colonists can better understand the whole picture. One device that he employs is asking a rhetorical question‚ which is a question that is not meant to be answered but

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    Indiana Jones film series‚ Jones is always on the hunt for some mystical artifact. In Raiders of the Lost Ark‚ he is trying to retrieve the Ark of the Covenant; in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade‚ Jones is on a search for the Holy Grail. This plot device dates back to the medieval Arabian Nights tale of "The City of Brass"‚ in which a group of travellers on an archaeological expedition[2] journey across the Sahara to find a brass vessel that Solomon once used to trap a jinn.[3] Several books in the

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    INPUT DEVICES 1. Where does the name QWERTY keyboard come from ? The name QWERTY comes from the first six letters on the top row of the alphabet keys. 2. Why do think the QWERTY keyboard is the most popular method of data entry? The QWERTY keyboard is the most popular method of entering data because an easy way of usage and when you get used to it you start typing faster 3. Who might make use of a concept keyboard? A concept keyboard might be used by a fast food restaurant

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