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Analyzing Rhetorical Devices in "O Captain! My Captain!

Explore the usage of rhetorical devices in Walt Whitman's poem "O Captain! My Captain!" as it addresses Abraham Lincoln's death. Discover powerful tools like apostrophe, analogy, antithesis, and more.

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Analyzing Rhetorical Devices in "O Captain! My Captain!

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  1. Rhetorical Devices

  2. Walt Whitman’s Poem “O Captain, My Captain” was written addressing the dead Abraham Lincoln

  3. apostrophe

  4. “Appointing a Wall Street insider to direct the Securities and Exchange Commission is like telling a fox to guard the henhouse.”

  5. analogy

  6. “I came to bury Caesar, not to praise him.” (Shakespeare, Julius Cesar)

  7. antithesis

  8. “Isn’t she great?”

  9. rhetorical question

  10. “The White House denied any involvement in the scandal.”

  11. Metonymy

  12. Saying “ethnic cleansing” instead of “genocide”

  13. euphemism

  14. “I came, I saw, I conquered.”

  15. Asyndeton and tricolon and parallelism

  16. “Anfractuous rocks”

  17. cacophony or dissonance

  18. “The tropics at first-hand: the trumpet-vine,/ fox-glove, giant snap-dragon, a salpiglossis that has / spots and stripes.”(Marianne Moore, “The Steeple-Jack)

  19. Catalog

  20. “All the other lads there were / were itching to have a bash.” (Philip Larkin, “Send No Money”)

  21. Colloquialism

  22. “Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage.”(Shakespeare, Macbeth)

  23. metaphor

  24. “And all men kill the thing they love.”(Oscar Wilde, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”)

  25. paradox

  26. Review TONE Words

  27. apathetic

  28. Indifferent due to lack of energy or concern

  29. cynical

  30. Questions the basic sincerity and goodness of people

  31. callous

  32. Unfeeling, insensitive to feelings of others

  33. choleric

  34. Hot-tempered, easily angered

  35. derisive

  36. Ridiculing, mocking

  37. erudite

  38. Learned, polished, scholarly

  39. indignant

  40. Marked by anger aroused by injustice

  41. jovial

  42. happy

  43. patronizing

  44. Air of condescension

  45. solemn

  46. Deeply earnest, tending toward sad reflection

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