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Rhetorical Examples
Examples for Final Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pathetic Fallacy | The stars woke up as the sun set. |
| Rhetorical Question | If practice makes perfect, and no one is perfect, why practice? |
| Paradox | Spies do not look like spies. |
| Hyperbole | I am so hungry I could eat a horse. |
| Pun | 1. My new theory on inertia doesn't seem to be gaining momentum. 2. She got fired from the hot dog stand for putting her hair in a bun. |
| Epiphany | 1. When Rod realizes he needs to do one big stunt to raise money for Frank’s heart transplant in Hot Rod 2. When Simba realizes he must take his place as king of the pride in Lion King |
| Trope | Time is a thief. |
| Allusion | - “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation…” –Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream” Speech |
| Polysynedeton | He pulled the blue plastic tarp off of him and folded it and carried it out to a plastic bag and a plastic bottle of syrup." (Cormac McCarthy, The Road. Knopf, |
| Anaphora | "I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun." (Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, 1940) |
| Metaphor | Love is a chocolate truffle. Life is the sun. |
| Metonymy | England is ruled by the crown. |
| Synecdoche | All hands on deck. General Motors is having a sale |
| Structural Irony | In Gulliver's Travel's, the narrator is both naive and fallible: he idealizes some of the peoples he encounters despite their follies; and his judgments are biased by conservative morality and personal pride. |
| Satire | In Huck Finn, the moral values Twain wishes to promote are completely turned on their heads. His hero, Huck, is a rather simple but goodhearted lad who is ashamed of the "sinful temptation" that leads him to help a runaway slave. |
| Farce | The Three Stooges |
| Parody | Weird Al Yankovic’s "White and Nerdy" is a parody of "Ridin'" by Chamillionaire |
| Utopia | Shangri-La, described in the novel Lost Horizon by James Hilton (1933) |
| Juxtaposition | "Watchmen at lonely railroad crossings in Iowa, hoping that they'll be able to get off to hear the United Brethren evangelist preach |
| Repetition | The rain is falling all around It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea |
| Sarcasm | My shirt is black…. NOT. Or you look cute today |
| Irony | The fact that Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is a phobia of long words. |
| Verbal Irony | The simple comment, "Oh Great" after something rotten happens |
| Dramatic Irony | "In There's Something About Mary, Ted thinks he's been arrested for picking up a hitchhiker while the audience knows he's being questioned by police about a murder. He says'I've done it several times before' and 'It's no big deal,' generate laughter." |
| Situational Irony | “A man takes a step aside in order to avoid getting sprinkled by a wet dog, and falls into a swimming pool." |
| Cosmic Irony | Murphy's law: "Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time." |
| Dead Metaphor | flowerbed to lend a hand seeds of doubt |
| Extended Metaphor | - He is the pointing gun, we are the bullets of his desire. All the world's a stage and men and women merely players |
| Mixed Metaphor | - "Her saucer-eyes narrow to a gimlet stare and she lets Mr. Clarke have it with both barrels." "I knew enough to realize that the alligators were in the swamp and that it was time to circle the wagons." |
| Simile | "You know life, life is rather like opening a tin of sardines. We're all of us looking for the key." "Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong." |
| Personification | - The thunder grumbled like an old man. - The flowers waltzed in the gentle breeze. -The thunder grumbled like an old man. -The flowers waltzed in the gentle breeze. |
| Syntax | "Please take it," says I, "and don't ask me nothing – then I won't have to tell no lies." -Jim from Huckleberry Fin |
| Rhetorical Strategy | One of the repeated rhetorical strategies Douglass employs is the Enlightenment "buzz words" of light and dark. She used many rhetorical strategies by using repetition, sarcasm, and alliteration in her piece of work. |
| Rhetorical Fallacy | Scott and Jill are going to the dance, therefore they are dating. Boston is playing New York this weekend, therefore its baseball. |
| Flashback | In Othello, Iago gives several asides, informing the audience of his plans and how he will try to achieve his goals. |
| Doppleganger | Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde." The Creature is Victor Frankenstein’s doppelganger. |
| Aside | - in Romeo and Juliet when the characters talk to the audience |
| Diction | It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big, still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed—only a little kind of a low chuckle. |
| Bombast/Bombastic | "My dear Copperfield, a man who labors under the pressure of pecuniary embarrassments, is, with the generality of people, at a disadvantage. |
| Asyndeton | "He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac." "It is a northern country; they have cold weather, they have cold hearts. |
| Allegory | In Avatar, The Pandora woods is a lot like the Amazon rainforest (the movie stops in its tracks for a heavy ecological speech or two), and the attempt to get the Na'vi to 'cooperate' carries overtones of the U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan." |
| Analogy | Bing Crosby had a velvet voice There are plenty of fish in the sea |
| Fragment | Since he came to New York |
| Mood/Atmosphere | • "Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering--and it's all over much too soon." (Woody Allen) |
| Semiotics | Nor is there any thing to be relied upon in Physick,[6] but an exact knowledge of medicinal physiology (founded on observation, not principles), semiotics, method of curing, and tried medicines. —Locke |
| Stream of Consciousness | "Les Lauriers sont Coupes" (We'll to the Woods No More), by Edouard Dujardin |
| Juxtaposition | 1. Childhood Obesity. Don’t take it lightly. 2. Ophelia's lack of any female influence in her life, resulting in her loss of identity. (Hamlet) |
| Repetition | 1. I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too? Then there's a pair of us-don't tell! They'd banish us you know. from "I'm nobody! Who are You?" - Emily Dickenson |
| Sarcasm | Wow that car accident was awesome! They're not mosquitoes, they're Airbuses with identity crises |
| Theme | Personal choice pops up as a huge component of all the action in Twilight. The defining aspect of the Cullen’s is that they've chosen to suppress their natural desire for human blood and only feed on animals. |
| Motif | The forces of good and evil in To Kill a Mockingbird seem larger than the small Southern town in which the story takes place. |
| Objective Point of View | In Red Riding Hood, we've do not have Red's thoughts and observations about the room and her Grandma. We can only see what physically happens and hear what is actually said. |
| Subjective Point of View | Stalin was a dictator who killed many people and he was cruel because of his actions. |
| Tone | Gently smiling, the mother tenderly tucked the covers up around the child’s neck, and carefully, quietly, left the room making sure to leave a comforting ray of light shining through the opened door should the child wake. |
| Voice | Oh, did you skin your knee? Poor baby! |
| Setting | It was a brisk Sunday afternoon in Central Park. |
| Versimilitude | The car crash resulted in two deaths and one man in critical condition. |
| Epiphany | When God appears to a person. When Hercules thought that he was killing wild beasts, but realizes that he killed his family. |
| Euphemism | When a coach says “We’re going to have to let you go” when they cut someone. |
| Drama | Specific mode of fiction represented in performance |
| Euphony | pleasantness or beauty of the sound of certain words and sentences |
| Cacophony | Unpleasantness of the sound of certain words and sentences |
| Plot | The last man in the world sits alone in a room. The telephone rings. The story of Romeo and Juliet. |
| Conflict-Person VS Person | Chris Brown punches Rihanna in the face. |
| Conflict-Person VS Self | Jim is having a hard time deciding what he is going to eat for lunch. |
| Conflict-Person VS Fate | Chuck Norris tries to break his predetermined destiny of being awesome. Even he can’t do that |
| Conflict Person VS Nature | Ellie gets caught in a horrible snow storm. She survives using only her bow. |
| Conflict-Inner Conflict | Joe is having a hard time making a decision. |
| Exterior Conflict | Jake is having a hard time running the mile in under five minutes. |
| Malapropism | "Texas has a lot of electrical vote” |
| Neologism | "Brunch” (breakfast + lunch). |
| Non Sequitur | "Bill lives in a large building, so his apartment must be large." |
| Trope | 1. Winning the tournament will be a cakewalk for him. 2.The writer is the lens through which history can be seen. |
| Allusion | Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. |
| Abstract Language | 1. I want freedom. 2. We all want success. |
| Aside | How say you by that? Still harping on my daughter. Yet he knew me not at first; 'a said I was a fishmonger.'A is far gone. And truly in my youth I suffered much extremity for love,very near this. I'll speak to him again.- |
| Canon | Art is not the application of a ____ of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any _____.When we love a womanwe don't start measuring her limbs. |
| Periodic Sentence | Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garment shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken, Silent and soft, and slow, Descends the snow. |
| Loose Sentence | The cat sat on the mat, purring softly, having licked his paws. |
| First Person Point of View | As I walk up the hill, I realize that the atmosphere's just too quiet. |
| Second Person Point of View | As you walk up the hill, you realize that the atmosphere's just too quiet. |
| Third Person Point of View | • As she walked up the hill, she realized that the atmosphere was just too quiet. |
| Third Person Limited Point of View | • Robert Jordan could walk well enough himself and he knew from following him since before daylight that the old man could walk him to death. |
| Aphorism | 1.A watched pot never boils 2."Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience deceptive, judgment difficult." |
| Foreshadowing | 1. In the opening of The Wizard of Oz, set in Kansas, the transformation of Miss Gulch into a witch on a broomstick and she later reappearances as Dorothy's enemy in Oz. |
| Diction | 1.“One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called 'weasel words.' 2.“y’all” |
| Bombastic | 1.“We have reacted like frightened sheep to the onslaught of ads” 2.“Ostentatiously lofty in style” |
| Asynedeton | 1.“He has provided the poor with jobs, with opportunity, with self-respect.” 2."I came, I saw, I conquered" |
| Doppleganger | Izaak Walton claimed that John Donne, the English metaphysical poet, saw his wife's doppelgänger in 1612 in Paris, on the same night as the stillbirth of their daughter. |
| Syntax | "It's a mistake to believe that English speakers follow rules in their speech and others do not. 2. The construction of a sentence follows certain rules which must be followed or the meaning which the writer wishes to convey fails to be delivered. |
| Rhetoric | 1. Guns kill people. The man has a gun, he must be a murderer. a. (Rhetorical Fallacy) My adjectives are excellent and thoughtful |
| Antithesis | 1.I hate all pets but I love dogs. 2.I love all vegetables but I hate green beans. |
| Fragment | After Starbucks Coffee opened. Several local coffee shops went out of business. |
| Allegory | - George Orwell's "Animal Farm" is an allegorical tale in which farm animals represent Communist Russia. The pigs symbolize the government; the dogs are the police force; and the rest of the animals symbolize the working class |
| Archetype | Every film has a stereotypical hero. The hero is easy to spot: he’s usually the star of the film. He’s the character the audience can cheer for without guilt because he’s always trying to do the right thing. |
| Analogy | 1)“You are as annoying as nails on a chalkboard.” 2)“I feel like a fish out of water.” |
| Anecdote | 1) “Back in the year 1966, I bought my first car. It was an old beater, but it served its purpose, and I was happy with it, regardless of how many horsepowers or torques it produced!” |
| Conceit | In Richard II, Shakespeare compares two kings competing for power to two buckets in a well, for instance. |
| Periphrasis | "In the Lincoln [Neb.] Sunday Journal-Star a cow did not give milk; 'the vitamin-laden liquid' came from a 'bovine milk factory.' "The Denver Post elongated 'mustache' into 'under-nose hair crops.' |
| Anastrophe | Troubles, everybody's got. (Normally: Everybody's got troubles) She looked at the sky dark and menacing. (Normally: She looked at the dark and menacing sky) |
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