Rhetorical Appeals and Literary Devices Review

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Text's emotional impact (e.g., peaceful, eerie)

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mood

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Group of lines in a poem resembling a paragraph

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stanza

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Extreme exaggeration (Ex. My backpack weighs a ton.)

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hyperbole

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Opposes the protagonist (villain)

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antagonist

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Author's attitude towards their subject (e.g., admiring, critical)

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tone

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Nonhuman things described with human feelings/actions (e.g., The wind moaned)

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personification

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Language appealing to the senses:

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Imagery

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Compares two similar things.

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analogy

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Repetition of a word/phrase at the start of a sentence. Ex: "We came, we saw, we conquered."

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anaphora

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Repetition of the same sound in nearby words, often consonants at the start. Ex: Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

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alliteration