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Rhetorical Devices Scavenger Hunt

Term 1 – Due: Sept. 16th

Objective: The purpose of this assignment is to train your mind to look for the use of rhetorical devices throughout your personal and academic reading. Your objective is to find examples to showcase at least 10 of the following literary terms. This assignment will be worth 100 pts. The following is a list of 30 terms from which you can choose 10 to search for samples.

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allusion

analogy

anecdote

aphorism

archetype

characterization

euphemism

hyperbole

idiom

in medias res

imagery

irony

juxtaposition

metaphor

metonymy

motif

oxymoron

paradox

parallelism

parody

personification

repetition

rhetorical question

satire

simile

symbol

synecdoche

theme

tone

understatement

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Examples can be taken from any type of literature: novels, poetry, music, short stories, articles, and editorial cartoons. Type the piece including an MLA citation. Label the term and highlight the specific words, phrases, or sentences that exemplify the technique. Add a written explanation in the form of a SIMPLE quotation sandwich for how each example improves the writer’s powers of communication. Please organize this work in a presentation folder and number your examples as you go. You will also turn in an MLA works cited list that compiles all of your sources together as a separate, graded assignment.

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1. Analogy

Definition: the extended comparison of two or more similar objects, suggesting that if they are alike in certain respects, they will probably be alike in other ways, too

Lewis, C.S. A Grief Observed. 1961. The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics. New York: HarperOne-HarperCollins, 2002. 651-688. Print.

Getting over it so soon? But the words are ambiguous. To say the patient is getting over it after an operation for appendicitis is one thing; after he’s had his leg off it is quite another. After that operation either the wounded stump heals or the man dies. If it heals, the fierce, continuous pain will stop. Presently he’ll get back his strength and be able to stump about on his wooden leg. He has ‘got over it.’ But he will probably have recurrent pains in the stump all his life, and perhaps pretty bad ones; and he will always be a one-legged man. There will be hardly any moment when he forgets it. Bathing, dressing, sitting down and getting up again, even lying in bed will all be different. His whole way of life will be changed. All sorts of pleasures and activities that he once took for granted will have to be simply written off. Duties too. At present I am learning to get about on crutches. Perhaps I shall presently be given a wooden leg, but I will never be a biped again.

Quotation Sandwich—

C.S. Lewis uses an extended comparison between an amputee and his situation as a widower to show that the loss of a spouse changes absolutely everything. When Lewis speaks of the patient as having “recurrent pains in the stump all his life,” he really means that from time to time a widower will relive the initial sadness he felt after losing his wife (678-679). This analogy helps to make his grief very real and understandable to a reader who can possibly imagine the loss of limb more easily than the death of a spouse.