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Literary Devices (:

Literary Devices (:. Martin Zavala Ogbeide Period: 2. Extended Metaphor. Definition: Also called a Conceit, is a metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work without the use of the words like or as .

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  1. Literary Devices (: Martin Zavala Ogbeide Period: 2

  2. Extended Metaphor • Definition: Also called a Conceit, is a metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work without the use of the words like or as . • Function: Establishes a principal subject and subsidiary subjects. • EXAMPLES: • He is the pointing gun, we are the bullets of his desire. • All the world's a stage and men and women merely players. • Let me count my loves of thee, my rose garden, my heart, my fixed mark, my beginning and my end.

  3. Rhetorical Question • Definition: Figure of speech in the form of a question without the expectation of a reply. • Function: Used as a Rhetorical Device, posed for the sake of encouraging its listener to consider a message or viewpoint. • Often a rhetorical question is intended as a challenge, with the implication that the question is difficult or impossible to answer. Thus, the questions function as negative assertion. In Shakespeare's  Julius Caesar, Marc Antony says, "Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?" (Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2, Pg.257), functions as an assertion that Caesar possessed rare qualities that may not be seen again for a long time. • EXAMPLES: • - Dr.Cameron: Why did you hire me? - Dr.House: Does it matter? - Dr.Cameron: kind of hard to work for a guy who doesn't respect you. - Dr.House: Why? - Dr.Cameron: Is that Rhetorical? - Dr.House: No, it just seems that way because you can't think of an answer. ( House, M.D) • Grandma Simpson and Lisa are singing Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" ("How many roads must a man walk before you call him a man?"). Homer overhears and says, "Eight!" -Lisa: "That was a rhetorical question!" -Homer: "Oh. Then, seven!" -Lisa: "Do you even know what 'rhetorical' means?" -Homer: "Do I know what 'rhetorical' means?" (The Simpsons, "When Grandma Simpson Returns")

  4. Rhetorical Question (continued...) • The question, "Can you do anything right?" is asked not to literally evaluate the abilities of the person being spoken to, but rather to hyperbolically imply that the person always fails. • When someone responds to a tragic event by saying, "Why me, God?!" it's more likely to be an accusation or an expression of feeling rather than a realistic request for information.

  5. Antanaclasis • Definition: The stylistic trope of repeating a single word, but with a different meaning each time. Common type of pun, and like other kinds of pun, it is often found in Slogans. • Function: An initial confusion as a word just used, and hence with one meaning already in short- term memory, is repeated with a different meaning. This causes the listener to pause and think, thus creating attention to what is said. • EXAMPLES: • In Shakespeare's Henry V, when the King sends the French ambassadors back to their master with an answer to the insulting gift of tennis-balls, he says,"for many a thousand widows/shall this his mock mock out of their dear husbands; Mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down. (Henry V, Act 1, scene 2, pg. 284-286) • "If you don't get it, you don't get it."- (The Washington Post slogan.) • "She's not pretty. She's not ugly. She's pretty ugly." • "I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!" - (Jay-Z in the song, "Diamonds from Sierra Leone.")

  6. References: • ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/culture/litterms.htm • rhetoric.byu.edu • en.wikipedia.org • grammar.about.com • http://knowgramming.com • changingminds.org/techniques/language

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