Rhetorical+Devices

1. __**Rhetorical Device**__: Is used as a persuasion mechanism in writing. // "The goal of rhetoric is to [|persuade] towards a particular [|frame of view] or a particular course of action, so appropriate rhetorical devices are used to construct [|sentences] designed both to make the audience receptive through emotional changes and to provide a rational argument for the frame of view or course of action. Some examples of Rhetorical devices are; simile, metaphor, oxymoron, tone, imagery, assonance, cacophony ect." [|From wikipedia.org] ( // Cole VDV)

Example of Rhetorical Device used in a well known speech by Abraham Lincoln: //"dived down deeper into the sea of knowledge and come up drier than any other man he knew". This symbolizes usage of a Rhetorical Device by// using a body of water as a metaphor for a body of knowledge with the ironical idea of someone who gained so little from his education that he achieved the impossible of jumping into a body of water and climbing back out without getting wet.

2. **Ballad: I**s a writing style in the form of verse, often narrative to music. B allads consisted of couplets (two lines) of rhymed verse, each of 14 syllables

Example:

Oh the ocean waves may roll, And the stormy winds may blow, While we poor sailors go skipping aloft And the land lubbers lay down below, below, below And the land lubbers lay down below.

3. **Elision**: The cancelling of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase, producing a result that is easier for the speaker to pronounce. Giving a result that may in some cases be impressionistically described as "slurred" or "muted." Often, however, the elision is deliberate, as in the use of contractions.

Example:

family (fam-i-ly/fam-lee) telephone (tel-e-phone/tel-phone) separate (sep-are-rate/sep-rat)

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