Foxhall Post-Test review Rhetorical recognition

Examples of Anaphora in common speech

"Every day, every night, in every way, I am getting better and better" "My life is my purpose. My life is my goal. My life is my inspiration." "I want my money right now, right here, all right?"

Example of Anaphora in Literature

"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 epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair."

Uses of Zeugma

"The farmers in the valley grew potatoes, peanuts, and bored." "She opened her door and her heart to the orphan." "He opened his mind and his wallet at the movies." "She batted her eyelashes and third." "He fished for compliments and for trout." She dug for gold and for praise. The disgruntled employee took his coat and his vacation.

Equivocation

"to call by the same name" —The same term is used in an argument in different places, but the word has different meaning.

Examples of Alliteration

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Anaphora

In writing or speech, the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect.

Synecdoche

a literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part.

Straw Man argument

a misrepresentation of an opponent's argument

Chiasmus

a rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their STRUCTURE in order to produce an artistic effect.

Periodic sentence

a sentence in which a series of dependent clauses is followed by an independent clause

Cumulative sentence

a sentence in which an independent clause is followed by a series of dependent clauses

Logical fallacy

an error in reasoning

Ad Hominem

attacks the individual instead of the argument

Examples of Antimetabole

"Eat to live, not live to eat."- Socrates "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961. "We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on us." Malcolm X, "Malcolm X" "You stood up for America, now America must stand up for you." Barack Obama - December 14, 2011.

Common Examples of Personification

Look at my car. She is a beauty, isn't it so? The wind whispered through dry grass. The flowers danced in the gentle breeze. Time and tide waits for none. The fire swallowed the entire forest.

Common Speech Examples of Metaphors

My brother was boiling mad. (This implies he was too angry.) The assignment was a breeze. (This implies that the assignment was not difficult.) It is going to be clear skies from now on. (This implies that clear skies are not a threat and life is going to be without hardships) The skies of his future began to darken. (Darkness is a threat; therefore, this implies that the coming times are going to be hard for him.) Her voice is music to his ears. (This implies that her voice makes him feel happy)

Examples of Allusion

The rise in poverty will unlock the Pandora's box of crimes. "This place is like a Garden of Eden." "The rug was the color of the wine-dark sea."

Examples of Synecdoche from Everyday Life

The word "bread" refers to food or money as in "Writing is my bread and butter" or "sole breadwinner". The phrase "gray beard" refers to an old man. The word "sails" refers to a whole ship. The word "suits" refers to businessmen. The word "boots" usually refers to soldiers. The term "coke" is a common *** for all carbonated drinks. The word "glasses" refers to spectacles. "Coppers" often refers to coins.

False Dichotomy

Two choices are given when there are more than two choices.

Allusion

a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.

Personification

a figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes. The non-human objects are portrayed in such a way that we feel they have the ability to act like human beings.

Metaphor

a figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things or objects that are poles apart from each other but have some characteristics common between them. In other words, a resemblance of two contradictory or different objects is made based on a single or some common characteristics.

Asyndeton

a sentence in which the conjunctions in a series of phrases are left out, e.g. "I am a rock, a stone, a solitary chunk of granite."

Hortative sentence

a sentence which advises or calls the audience to action

Imperative sentence

a sentence which commands its listener to take action

Slippery slope

a series of increasingly unacceptable consequences is drawn.

Alliteration

a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series.

Begging the Question

an assumption that a statement has been proved, when actually it has not.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc

because one thing follows another, it is held to cause another

Non sequitur

comments or information that do not logically flow from a premise or the conclusion

Antimetabole

derived from a Greek word which means "turning about". It is a literary term or device that involves repeating a phrase in reverse order. "You like it; it likes you" and "Fair is foul and foul is fair" etc. Chiasmus and this term are usually expected to be overlapped in usage

Zeugma

from Greek "yoking" or "bonding", is a figure of speech in which a word, usually a verb or an adjective, applies to more than one noun, blending together grammatically and logically different ideas.

Poisoning the well

presenting negative information about a person before he/ she speaks so as to discredit the person's argument