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Rhetorical Strategies

Rhetorical Strategies. For each of the following sentences, identify the underlined word group by writing IND for independent clause and DEP for dependent clause. When Jeremey called last night, I was not at home. I know the woman who owns that store .

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Rhetorical Strategies

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  1. Rhetorical Strategies

  2. For each of the following sentences, identify the underlined word group by writing IND for independent clause and DEP for dependent clause. • When Jeremey called last night, I was not at home. • I know the woman who owns that store. • John is the boy who is on the swim team. • It is hot today; please water the garden. • When you reach the end of the hallway, turn right.

  3. Look at the list of rhetorical strategies. • Going down the left column, circle any that you do not know.

  4. You Should Know… • 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 19, 22, 24, 28 • Questions about these?

  5. You Probably know… • 17, 18, 20, 21, 23, 27 • Questions about these?

  6. You Don’t Know… • 5, 6, 16, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31

  7. Rhetorical Strategies • Understatement: the ironic minimalizing of fact, understatement presents something as less significant than it is. The effect can frequently be humorous and emphatic. Understatement is the opposite of hyperbole. • Example: Jonathan Swift’s A Tale of a Tub: “Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse.” • Juxtaposition: Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences • Example: The nations of Asia and Africa are moving at jet-like speed toward gaining political independence, but we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter.- MLK • Undertone: An attitude that may lie under the ostensible tone of the piece. Under a cheery surface, for example, a work may have threatening undertones. • Words with heavy connotations: words that are strongly associated with other ideas

  8. Invective: an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. • For example, in Henry IV, Part I, Prince Hal calls the large character of Falstaff “this sanguine coward, this bedpresser, this horseback breaker, this huge hill of flesh.” • Narrative pace: how fast the speaker moves through the material • Short, staccato sentences: very short sentences, may seem choppy

  9. Paraleipis: stating and drawing attention to something in the very act of pretending to pass it over. A kind of irony. • Example: It would be unseemly for me to dwell on Senator Kennedy's drinking problem, and too many have already sensationalized his womanizing... • Litotes: a form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite. Litote is the opposite of hyperbole. • Examples: “not the brightest bulb” • “not a beauty” • “not bad” • “not unfamiliar”

  10. HOmework • Study these terms. • We will do a review activity with them tomorrow. • Reminders: • Vocab HW + Quiz tomorrow

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