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Rhetorical Terms #26-31. Kim Updike Danny Loevy Nick Yan Mary-Hall Keyes. Personification. Definition: Giving non-human things human characteristics/traits Ex. In the Pixar movie Cars, the cars are personified into talking characters. Polysyndeton.
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Rhetorical Terms #26-31 Kim Updike Danny Loevy Nick Yan Mary-Hall Keyes
Personification • Definition: Giving non-human things human characteristics/traits • Ex. In the Pixar movie Cars, the cars are personified into talking characters.
Polysyndeton • Definition: Deliberate and excessive use of conjunctions in successive words or clause • Ex. We lived and laughed and loved and left. • Used to give emphasis, used to slow down the literature piece
Pun • Definitions: Humorous use of a word or a phrase to emphasize or suggest its different meaning or application • Ex. A horse is a very stable animal. Energizer Bunny arrested -- charged with battery.
Rhetorical Question • Question that isn’t answered because the answer is obvious • Writer does not expect an answer • Ex: Is the Pope Catholic? • Isn’t this great?!
Syntax • Definition: The way an author links words into sentences (syntax=group of words, diction=individual words) • Follows set of rules • Ex. When people learn how to properly form sentences.
Zeugma • Definition: Use of a word to modify two or more words when its appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each or in a different way • Taking verb, verb is modifying or referring to concrete or abstract • Ex. She gave him her heart and hand to hold for affection or love.