Rhetorical Device Vocab.

What is Alliteration?

• The repetition at close intervals of consonant sounds for a purpose. For example: wailing in the winter wind.

• A reference to something in literature, history, mythology, religious texts, etc., considered common knowledge.

• Double or even multiple meaning

• A narrative in which the characters often stand for abstract concepts. An allegory generally teaches a lesson by means of an interesting story

Answer explanation

Alliteration is also known as tongue twisters. “she sells seashells“, they are also used by brands to make their names much more memorable, for example, “Krispy Kreme“.

What is Allusion?

• A point by point comparison between two dissimilar things for the purpose of clarifying the less familiar of the two things

• A reference to something in literature, history, mythology, religious texts, etc., considered common knowledge.

• The character or force that opposes the protagonist. (It can be a character, an animal, a force, or a weakness of the character.)

• The repetition at close intervals of vowel sounds for a purpose. For example: mad as a hatter.

Answer explanation

Every time you make a reference to some places, events, or a person you are making an allusion. For example, one could say, ”I’m not Sherlock Holmes, so you go figure that out”.

What is Imagery?

• An exaggeration for emphasis or humorous effect

• A word-for-word interpretation for what is written or said.

• Words and phrases that create vivid experiences or a picture for the reader.

• A figure of speech in which a comparison is made between two seemingly unlike things, as in the phrase “evening of life.”

Answer explanation

Example "The trash can's smells assaulted me like a bug splatting on a windshield, attacking my nostrils with the vigor of a starving man in front of a buffet. The rainbow of colors that looked like zombies rotting corpses crashed into a craft store and dress for disco, which fell into a vat of glitter. It radiated heat from a thousand suns as it sat in the corner of this long-forgotten alleyway joining sewage from the pet shop, delicatessen, bakery, and the butchers. This biohazard sewage dump of waste can only be the gateway to whatever form of hell one might believe exists. The combined refuse from the former locations surrounding the oozing detritus came together like the power rangers to attack my senses."

A contrast between appearance and actuality is?

• Irony

• Metaphor

• Mood

• Imagery

Answer explanation

The Irony shown in this image is that the sign states no smoking. As we can see, it's a prime location for smoking despite the sign stating otherwise.

Verbal Irony?

• A figure of speech in which two contradictory words or phrases are combined.

• Occurs when the reader knows information that the characters do not.

• Occurs when something happens that is entirely different from what is expected.

• A writer says one thing, but means something entirely different.

Answer explanation

We would also say “You're as clear as a mud” to someone who is explaining things to us in a very unclear manner, defeating the purpose of explanation.

Occurs when something happens that is entirely different from what is?

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Irony

Answer explanation

Situational: The hunter died trying to kill beavers, but in the end, he is killed by a beaver taking down the tree.

Dramatic Irony

• Occurs when the reader knows information that the characters do not.

• When something happens that is entirely different from what is expected.

• When a writer says one thing but means something entirely different.

• A word-for-word interpretation for what is written or said.

A figure of speech in which a comparison or analogy is made between two seemingly unlike things, as in the phrase “evening of life.”

• Pun

• Satire

• Metaphor

• Simile

Hyperbole

• a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

• An exaggeration for emphasis or humorous effect.

• A figure of speech in which a comparison or analogy is made between two seemingly unlike things

• a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.

Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which two contradictory words or phrases are combined in a single expression, giving the effect of a condensed paradox: “wise fool,” “cruel kindness.” Which of the below is NOT an Oxymoron?

• Fat boy Slim

• Controlled chaos

• Organized mess

• Small Girl