A rhetorical question is a figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked in order to make a point. The question is used as a rhetorical device, posed for the sake of encouraging its listener to consider a message or viewpoint. Though these are technically questions, they do not always require a question mark. For example, the question "Can't you do anything right?" is asked not to gain information about the ability of the person being spoken to, but rather to insinuate that the person
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she wants but she asks her mother as she knows what is best. She asks for John the Baptist's head on a platter, so she can be rich. The poem shows similar story line but shows more of her thoughts and her telling the story. It shows her asking rhetorical questions of the night before, " woke up with a head on the pillow beside me- whose?- what did it matter?" She gives a description of the guy and questions what his name is but states "never again" will she sleep around and get hungover. Here she
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Stylistic devices Repetition and Variation |stylistic device |definition |translation |example |effect | |alliteration |recurrence of initial sound |Alliteration |“The fair breeze blew, |to convey auditory images | |
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Allegories - An allegory is a narrative where similarities between the narrative are used symbolically to suggest something else; a journey could be used allegorically to suggest a person's journey through life. Alliteration - Alliteration is the use of words beginning with the same letter to achieve a poetic effect. Shakespeare (Macbeth) 'Good things of day begin to droop and drowse. Antagonym - A word that can mean the opposite of itself is an antagonym. - bound (bound for Chicago, moving)
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To Autumn The poem To Autumn by John Keats is a simple poem that describes the stages of fall. The poem is personification of autumn. The poem is a personification of autumn to better display what autumn is. In the first stanza of the poem autumn is personified as the force that ripening and maturing the crop allowing them to grow and mature. For example the 4th to the 7th verse is With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run; To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees
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Anthem for Doomed Youth THEMES: • Sonnet – ironic • Betrayal of these people • Loss of lives • Funeral ceremonies being denied of these people • There is not glory at war – these people die at war • Lies are being told to them TECHNIQUES: • Rhetorical question at the start of the stanzas which engage the readers to take into account what is denied of these solders • Onomatopoeia – “stuttering riffles rapid rattle”: staccato rhyme mimics the sounds in a battle field, “shrill demented choirs of
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“A respectable Woman” by Kate Chopin Epithets: - unbroken rest - mild dissipation * deep satisfaction Metaphor: * the air that swept across the sugar field * silence melted for the time Metonymy: * footsteps crunching the gravel Antithesis: * He had been her husband's college friend; was now a journalist, and in no sense a society man or "a man about town," which were, perhaps, some of the reasons she had never met him. But she had unconsciously formed
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himself. Chesterfield tells his son he should push himself and strive to be excellent. Chesterfield tries not to dictate his son as a parent but to be his friend, because he knows how easy it is to not listen to your parent. Chesterfield also uses rhetorical questions to help and boost his son motivation to do better. In lines (35-41 0 Chesterfield tells his son he should use his education to come above any and everyone else “for can there be a greater pleasure than to be universal “ In conclusion
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connotation Connotation refers to the emotional associations and overtones related to a word. For example, a person who is underweight might be described as slight, or scrawny. "Slight" has a fairly positive emotional connotation, while "scrawny" has a negative connotation. paradox A paradox is a statement that first appears to be contradictory but actually states a truth. "History teaches us that we learn nothing from history informational text Informational text is non-fiction text that
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Epithet is a stylistic device based on the interaction of the logical and emotive meanings. It shows the purely individual emotional attitude of the writer or the speaker towards the object mentioned. Epithet is expressed by: 1) adjectives; 2) adverbs; Adjectives and adverbs constitute the greatest majority of epithets. 3) participles, both present and past; 4) nouns, especially often in of-phrases; 5) word-combinations; 6) whole phrases. The last two groups of epithets help the writer
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