Rhetorical Features in Writing: Parallelism, Diction, Allusion, Repetition
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| Identify the Rhetorical Feature (Rhetorical Device): a reference to an event, literary work or person | show 🗑
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| show | allusion: The reference to Superman means I cannot accomplish that difficult task.
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| show | parallelism
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| What type of Rhetorical Feature is demonstrated here: I went to the store, parked the car and bought a pizza. | show 🗑
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| show | allusion: He will let his anger loose on you if you take his parking place.
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| show | allusion: One should prepare for difficulties before they show up.
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| Identify the Rhetorical Feature (Rhetorical Device): the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning, or meter. | show 🗑
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| What type of Rhetorical Feature is demonstrated here: He came, he saw, and he conquered | show 🗑
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| What type of Rhetorical Feature is demonstrated here: The political leader said, “The present government has ruined the economy; it has ruined the education system; and it has ruined the health system of our country.” | show 🗑
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| show | parallelism: The structure before the semicolon is the same as the structure afterward (the verb is understood) and it is used to reinforce the point that everyone error's but it is a higher calling (divine) to forgive.
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| What type of Rhetorical Feature is demonstrated in this famous excerpt “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,... it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” | show 🗑
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| show | Yes, when a structure is repeated, it creates a parallel structure.
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| show | diction (word choice)
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| show | diction (word choice): abuses, usurpations, depostism...all are impactful words and have heavy connotations. They make a bigger impact than "mean" or "hurtful" or "wrongdoings."
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| show | parallelism: the preposition "for" begins a list of prepositional phrases stating the reasons for separating
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| show | parallelism: make no law...respecting or prohibiting (the two parallel verbs create parallel predicates)
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| show | repetition
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| What Rhetorical Feature is displayed here: "Jingle bells. Jingle bells. Jingle all the way." | show 🗑
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| show | repetition: "Ho" is repeated.
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| show | repetition: "Hey, Jude" is repeated
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| show | repetition: "Half a league" is repeated in Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade to recreate the sound of the charging cavalry.
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