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Rhetorical Devices
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12th Grade
10/10/2010

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Apostrophe
Definition
a sudden turn from the general audience to address a specific group or person or personified abstraction absent or present.

*For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel.
Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
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Assonance
Definition
repetition of the same sound in words close to each other

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done.
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Couplet
Definition
a pair of lines of poetry that are usually rhymed
Sir Lancelot was the first knight of the round table,
Saying he was a coward is a complete fable.
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Meter
Definition
measure of a line of poetry. It is rhythm that can be measured in poems.

You say be GIN, for GET and uh LONE. You don't say BE gin, FOR get, and UH lone.
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Foot
Definition
A foot is the basis of meter: that is, the regular unit of rhythm which, when repeated, makes up a verse.
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stanza
Definition
A stanza consists of a grouping of lines, set off by a space, that usually has a set pattern of meter and rhyme.
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Lyric
Definition
a short poem with one speaker (not necessarily the poet) who expresses thought and feeling.
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Sonnet
Definition
a lyric poem consisting of fourteen lines.
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Ode
Definition
a poem that celebrates something. An ode is a poem that celebrates a subject. For example, your family, or a pillow
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Conceit
Definition
when an image or metaphor likens one thing to something else that is seemingly very different
Ex.
Shakespeare's sonnet "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
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Scansion
Definition
The analysis of a poem's meter. This is usually done by marking the stressed and unstressed syllables in each line and then, based on the pattern of the stresses, dividing the line into feet.
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Litotes
Definition
understatement, for intensification, by denying the contrary of the thing being affirmed
Ex.War is not healthy for children and other living things
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Metonymy
Definition
substitution of one word for another which it suggests
Ex.The pen is mightier than the sword
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Paradox
Definition
an assertion seemingly opposed to common sense, but that may yet have some truth in it
Ex.Nobody goes to that restaurant, it's too crowded.
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Synecdoche
Definition
understanding one thing with another; the use of a part for the whole, or the whole for the part
Ex.The U.S. won three gold medals.
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Anaphora
Definition
the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines
ex.We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans
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