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Rhetorical Terms #1

Rhetorical Terms #1. Colloquial and Idiomatic Diction. Colloquial Diction. Colloquial ( adj ) : coversational , informal Items that may signal a colloquial style Address to the audience (you) Contractions and other informal grammar

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Rhetorical Terms #1

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  1. Rhetorical Terms #1 Colloquial and Idiomatic Diction

  2. Colloquial Diction • Colloquial (adj): coversational, informal • Items that may signal a colloquial style • Address to the audience (you) • Contractions and other informal grammar • Conversational Phrasing (“if you get my drift…” “Whatever”) • Regionalisms, slang, and neologisms (new words)

  3. Idiomatic Diction • Idiom: a phrase where the words do not add up to the meaning, but the meaning is understood • Kick the bucket • my hands are tied • Never look a gift horse in the mouth • Not to beat a dead horse • Like Apples and Oranges

  4. Complex Antithetical Sentence • Patterns (367) While Gansberg’s narrator tries to remain objective and clinical, Orwell recounts his tale with a subjective and confessional tone.

  5. Two sentences with a c/c transition • October contained five long, unbroken weeks of school. November, on the other hand, has two four-day weeks and one two-day week.

  6. Balanced Parallel with a semicolon • Parallelism (370) • “Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game; football is a twentieth century technological struggle.” • George Carlin

  7. Chiasmus • TYFA (10) • “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” • “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”

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